One of the world’s oldest aquaculture systems.
In southwest Victoria, the Gunditjmara people built an extensive system of channels, weirs and ponds in the lava flows of the Budj Bim volcano to trap, store and harvest short-finned eels. Parts of the system are at least 6,600 years old.
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Pakistan · c. 7000–2500 BCE
A Neolithic village where people grew barley and herded cattle thousands of years before the Indus cities.
Türkiye · c. 9500 BCE
Carved T-shaped pillars raised before farming, pottery or writing — and before Stonehenge by about 6,000 years.
Türkiye · c. 7100–5700 BCE
Thousands of people lived in tightly packed mud-brick houses entered through holes in the roof.
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