Found close to the shorelines along the northern Australian coast, especially at Weipa (Cape York) and Milingimbi (Arnhem Land); the steep-sided mounds are up to 10 metres high and consist of accumulations of cockle shells, charcoal, and bone and stone tools. Radiocarbon dates are 500 be-1200 ad for base deposits of several mounds. Recent ethnographic observations report that the mounds are favoured by Aborigines as wet monsoon camping-sites above the level of insects in the surrounding coastal flats.
The Macmillan dictionary of archaeology, Ruth D. Whitehouse, 1983Copied