Editing Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve (section)

===Indigenous history===
[[File:Tidbinbilla from the air.jpg|thumb|Tidbinbilla with the [[Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex]] from the air]]
Aboriginal people have inhabited the Tidbinbilla area since antiquity. Archaeological digs at Birrigai, over the hill from Tidbinbilla, found the earliest evidence of the use of fire, [http://www.australia.com/en/places/act/act-nature-reserve.html dated at 20,000 years old]. This was at the time of the last ice age. Excavations at Hanging Rock has dated occupation of that site to some 16,000 years.

The name Tidbinbilla is derived from the Aboriginal word 'Jedbinbilla' meaning a place where boys become men. The last corroboree, an Australian Aboriginal dance ceremony, held at Tidbinbilla was circa 1904. There are aboriginal rock paintings to be found at Gibraltar Peak in a small cave.