The excavations revealed a collection of 327 kangaroo and wallaby incisor teeth!

They were found as archaeologists sifted through the sediment where the bodies were found. Unfortunately, due to the way that the site was first examined by the police, it is not possible to determine exactly where they were placed on the bodies. Sue Feary, an archaeologist who worked at the site said

"one or other individual may have had the necklace around their neck... [or] they may have been in the dilly bag with all the other grave goods, buried at the feet of the people, hence not washed away."

It's also important to understand that the way you see the teeth displayed on the left is not necessarily how they would have been originally strung together. But archaeologists certainly think they originally hung on string as each of the holes (possibly gouged out with a hard stone like quartz) show evidence of polishing under magnification.

In the newspaper articles in the link below, read why archaeologists and local Indigenous communities, including the Ngarigo Nation, found this necklace to be such a rare and intriguing find.