Scientists say they have found Australia’s first underwater archeological areas off the country’s west coast. The sites are believed to be 7,000 years old. The area where they were found was once dry land. Archeologists say study of the hundreds of found objects will increase understanding of the culture and technological development of Australia’s aboriginal people.

What does aboriginal mean?
a recent immigrant
physical activity involving weights
inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times
the study of a novel
Where did scientists find ancient artifacts?
Austria
Australia
Peru
Antarctica
The archeological sites are believed to be 7,000 years old.
700 years old
1,000 years old
1,700 years old
7,000 years old