Editing 5th millennium BC (section)

====Australia====
It is estimated that the distinctive [[Sydney rock engravings|Aboriginal rock carvings]] near [[Sydney]] were created sometime between 5000 BC and 3000 BC.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/jul/23/hidden-in-plain-sight-indigenous-australian-rock-art-on-sydneys-doorstep |title=Hidden in plain sight: Indigenous Australian rock art on Sydney's doorstep |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |author=Delaney, Brigid |date=23 July 2015 |access-date=1 June 2019}}</ref>

Sea levels had become relatively stabilized by the time of 4500 BC around the coastlines of Australia. This occurred after several thousands of years of sea level rising, due to glaciers melting after the [[Younger Dryas]] event. This knowledge was passed down in oral history among the Aboriginal tribes of Australia as they recalled the drastic sea level rises that ended up swallowing their once lower coastlines.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Upton |first1=John |title=Ancient Sea Rise Tale Told Accurately for 10,000 Years |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-sea-rise-tale-told-accurately-for-10-000-years/ |website=scientificamerican.com |publisher=Scientific American |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref>

Around the time of the 5th Millennium BC, there was a proliferation of stone tool, plant processing and landscape modification technologies. Elaborate fish and eel traps involving channels up to three kilometres long were in use in western Victoria from about 6,500 years ago. Semi-permanent collections of wooden huts on mounds also appeared in western Victoria, associated with a more systematic exploitation of new food sources in the wetlands.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Veth |first1=Peter |last2=O'Connor |first2=Sue |title=The past 50,000 years: An archaeological view |url=https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/the-past-50000-years-an-archaeological-view |via=The University of Western Australia |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/CHO9781107445758.005 |isbn=9781107011557 |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref>

The [[Furneaux Group]], which is a set of islands off the Northeast portion of Tasmania, had been inhabited since at least 33,000 BC, but the Aboriginal Tasmanians stopped living there permanently around the time of 4,000 BC.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tasmanian Aboriginal History In The Furneaux Region |url=https://www.flinders.tas.gov.au/furneaux-history |website=flinders.tas.gov.au |publisher=Flinders Council |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref>

Rock art in the Northern Territory of Australia, specifically from the area of [[Arnhem Land]] is said to have a portion of its depictions dating to around 4,000 BC, which show battle scenes or skirmishes between the people in the local area. The art also includes animals and other ceremonial meanings. These scenes have been dated to up to 10,000 years old and down to 6,000 years old when painted continuously over time.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Taçon |first1=Paul |title=Australia's Ancient Warriors: Changing Depictions of Fighting in the Rock Art of Arnhem Land, N.T. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/abs/australias-ancient-warriors-changing-depictions-of-fighting-in-the-rock-art-of-arnhem-land-nt/6558318B6DBDEDABE81075FB7998C7D5 |journal=Cambridge Archaeological Journal |date=1994 |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=211–248 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/S0959774300001086 |s2cid=162983574 |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref>

Stone points for spears and distinct stone point technology have been found dating from 5–7 thousand years ago in Australia. Many of the early stone point technologies are specifically found in the [[Kimberley (Western Australia)|Kimberley Region]] of the northern portion of West Australia. Spear throwers or more specifically developed and used by Australian Aboriginals, '[[Woomera (spear-thrower)|Woomeras]]' are believed to have become in widespread use around this time around Australia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kimberley Point |url=https://stonetoolsmuseum.com/artefact/australia/kimberley-point/2050/ |website=stonetoolsmuseum.com/ |publisher=Museum of Stone Tools |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref>