The Earth is rearranging history

Deep below the surface of Murujuga, soil expands and contracts from the passage of water. Each wetting cycle is like a sodden breath from lungs holding fragments of stone and shell. Stone artifacts from millennia of Aboriginal life are pushed up slowly, maybe only a few millimeters each decade. In one final gasp, they break the surface, a thousand-year-old knife lying on the surface, as if dropped yesterday.