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===Traditional owners=== The first humans to inhabit the Flinders Ranges were the [[Adnyamathanha]] people (meaning "[[hill people]]" or "rock people") whose descendants still reside in the area,<ref name=":0" /> and the [[Ngadjuri]] (Ndajurri) people,<ref name="discover">{{cite book |title=Discover Australia's National Parks |last=Hema Maps |year=1997 |publisher=[[Random House]] Australia |location=[[Milsons Point, New South Wales]] |isbn=1-875992-47-2 |pages=320β321 }}</ref><ref name=koolmatrie/> They inhabited the range for tens of thousands of years<ref name=":0"/><ref name=koolmatrie>{{cite web | title=Histories written in the land: a journey through Adnyamathanha Yarta|first=Jacinta |last=Koolmatrie | website=The Adelaide Review | date=11 March 2020 | url=https://www.adelaidereview.com.au/latest/opinion/2020/03/11/histories-written-in-the-land-a-journey-through-adnyamathanha-yarta/}}</ref> before being dispersed by [[British colonisation of South Australia|European settlement after colonisation]].<ref>{{Cite book| chapter = Coming back to country: A conversation at Firewood Creek | last1 = Birt | first1 = Peter | last2 = Copley | first2 = Vincent | year = 2004 | title = Indigenous Archaeologies: Decolonising Theory and Practice | editor1-last = Smith | editor1-first = Claire | editor2-last = Wobst | editor2-first = H. Martin | publisher = [[Routledge]] | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=MylyVq_dMoIC&pg=PA249 | pages = 249β264 | isbn = 978-1-134-39155-4}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| chapter = Cultural landscape and Sense of Place: Community and Tourism Representations of the Barossa | last = Leader-Elliott | first = Lyn | year = 2014 | title = Making Sense of Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives | editor1-last = Convery | editor1-first = Ian | editor2-last = Corsane | editor2-first = Gerard | editor3-last = Davis | editor3-first = Peter | publisher = Boydell & Brewer | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zszCAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA210 | pages = 207β218 | isbn = 978-1-843-83899-9}}</ref> [[Cave painting]]s, [[rock engraving]]s and other [[cultural artefact]]s indicate that the Adnyamathana and Ndajurri lived in the Flinders Ranges for tens of thousands of years. Occupation of the [[Warratyi]] rock shelter dates back approximately 49,000 years.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-03/rock-shelter-shows-early-aboriginal-settlement-in-arid-australia/7983864|title=Oldest known evidence of Aboriginal settlement in arid Australia found in Flinders Ranges rock shelter|publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|date=2016-11-03|access-date=2016-11-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/first-discovery-of-50000-year-old-human-settlements-in-australian-interior/|title=First discovery of 50,000-year-old human settlements in Australian interior|publisher=[[Ars Technica]]|date=2016-03-11|author=Annalee Newitz|access-date=2016-11-05}}</ref>
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