If in fact, the canoe represents outsiders visiting the Kimberley region in the past, the minimum age estimate of 0.53 ± 0.08 ka would also provide a minimum timeframe for maritime contact and much earlier than Macassans are known to have visited the coast.
![[This page as RDF]](http://data.gesis.org/somesci/static/rdf-icon.gif){kind=icon}