The Wangal people (aka Wanngal, Won-gal, Wongaibon, Wangaaypuwan, Wangaaybuwan) are the original Aboriginal custodians of the lands and waters of the current Municipality of Strathfield and surrounding areas of Sydney, New South Wales.
Archaeological evidence of human occupation of the Sydney area has been dated back 20,000 years, and is likely to date back much further (people have been dated as being present elsewhere in Australia more than 60,...
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The Wangal people (aka Wanngal, Won-gal, Wongaibon, Wangaaypuwan, Wangaaybuwan) are the original Aboriginal custodians of the lands and waters of the current Municipality of Strathfield and surrounding areas of Sydney, New South Wales.
Archaeological evidence of human occupation of the Sydney area has been dated back 20,000 years, and is likely to date back much further (people have been dated as being present elsewhere in Australia more than 60,000 years ago - see Australian Aboriginal Prehistoric Sites).
Sydney's geomorphology 20,000 years ago was very different to what it is today. In the middle of the last ice age, the Sydney coast was approximately 15km to the east and what is now Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) was freshwater creeks and rivers. Wangal predecessors would have been living in the now-submerged coastal area.
As sea levels rose to their present levels, peoples living on the coast would have been forced inland. By 1788, the Wangal people were well established there as a...
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