Aboriginal people occupied Riwi, a limestone cave in the south-central Kimberley region at the edge of the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia, from about 46000 years ago through to the historical period. The cultural materials recovered from the Riwi excavations provide evidence of intermittent site use, especially in climatically wet periods. Changes in hunting patterns and in hearth-making practices about 34000 years ago appear to accompany a change to drought resistant vegetation in the site surrounds. Occupation during the Last Glacial Maximum highlights variation in aridity trends in the broader environmental record. The most intensive use of the cave was during a wet period in the early to middle Holocene, when people appear to have received marine shell beads from the coast through social networks. While there is less evidence for late Holocene occupation, this probably reflects deposition processes rather than an absence of occupation.

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长期占领沙漠边缘：西澳大利亚州金伯利南部的Riwi Cave

从大约 46000 年前到历史时期，原住民占领了位于西澳大利亚大沙沙漠边缘的金伯利地区中南部的石灰岩洞穴里维。从 Riwi 发掘中回收的文化材料提供了间歇性场地使用的证据，尤其是在气候潮湿的时期。大约 34000 年前，狩猎模式和炉灶制作实践的变化似乎伴随着遗址周围抗旱植被的变化。末次冰盛期期间的职业突出了更广泛环境记录中干旱趋势的变化。洞穴最密集的使用是在全新世早期至中期的潮湿时期，当时人们似乎通过社交网络从海岸收到了海洋贝壳珠。