The rockshelter is heavily cited as evidence of Aboriginal Tasmanians adapting to climate change allowing them new economic opportunities and survival strategies.
The archaeologist Harry Lourandos cited Warragarra rockshelter as one of his main sites of archaeological significance in his paper 10,000 years in the Tasmanian highlands.
Lourandos discusses how he excavated 2.5 meters squared of the site, this was enough to reveal two stratigraphic sequences that show two separate periods of habitation.
Additionally Nick Porch and Jim Allen, two other prolific Australian archaeologists, state that the Warragarra rock shelter site provides significant evidence for the continued habitation of inland Tasmania.
[3] Tasmania being located far south on the map leaves the island vulnerable to large amounts of climatic variability it is believed that most of the island was covered in glacial ice shelfs until about 11,500 years ago when the global climate began to warm and ice caps began to melt.