This story is at https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/06/archaeologists-unearth-evidence-of-ancient-australians-in-freezing-mountains/ … high in the Blue Mountains, 3280 feet above sea level, human artifacts have been unearthed in a cave – dating back to the Late Glacial Maximum. In this instance, around 20,000 years ago. At this time SE Australia was cooler than it is today. We are told it was 8 degrees colder than in the modern world. Vegetation was sparse in the mountains, and water froze over in winter. Yet, humans quickly adapted, it would seem, and thrived in the high mountains. It is unclear how much of the evidence relates to people passing through the mountains to the other side – on walk about. Moving in and through the landscape. Some 700 artifacts were collected in collaboration with local Aboriginal communities.