Kartan stone tools

The Kartan stone tools are large stone tools that were found on Karta, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. The island is called Karta by Ramindjeri.
The original people/s of Karta were gone by about 2000 years ago, but left large numbers of large blunt stone tools in their many camps. Similar large numbers of large blunt pounding tools that were often collected from far away seem to indicate some local mining activity was undertaken, several thousand years ago, by hundreds of small encampments that all seem to have stopped this mining activity and abandoned their tools approximately 2000 years ago.
The only possible mining activity in the area would have been for gold, tin or copper, and this indicates some contact with the outside world. Despite much skepticism, this remains a possible explanation that does match with the facts, even if not with the popular history as recorded at present.
No other explanation fills the gaps that are becoming more difficult to deny exist with current versions of history, some difficult observations in the area in and around Karta / Kangaroo Island.
Its seems likely the centre of the Kartan tool use was near Kangaroo Island, but Kartan tool technology can be seen in ever deceasing numbers of sites hundreds of kilometers away, especially in the Flinders Ranges and even up into the central Australian desert among Martu Annangu Arabunna peoples in central Australia.
The language patterns seem to indicate the probability of some outside influence came from Karta peoples, and into adjacent Narrunga, Ramindjeri, Peramangk and Kaurna.
Middens indicate a rapid increase in population and then decrease, imply several thousand years of intense occupation activity near kartan tools sites, ending abruptly over 2000 years ago, and reverting to smaller nomadic bands again.

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