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Cloggs Cave

Cave on GunaiKurnai Country where ritual practice is traceable in the ground for 25,000 years — and matches what GunaiKurnai knowledge and 19th-century ethnography describe.

Dated events and their evidence

• 23,000 BCE mainstream
  cultural plant use begins; the pollen sequence spans 25,000 years source
• 9,000 BCE mainstream
  a fireplace ritual dated to the last ice age matches an ethnographically recorded GunaiKurnai practice source
• 2,400 BCE mainstream
  whole grasses carried in and burnt — up to 97% of phytoliths are grass, up to 18% burnt or melted source
• 0 CE mainstream
  grasses burnt around a small standing stone, ~2,000 years ago: magic, healing and cursing by mulla-mullung source

Where

37.1300° S, 147.7200° E

Sources

• https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-archaeology/articles/10.3389/fearc.2024.1488477/full
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11343701/
• https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-archaeology/articles/10.3389/fearc.2026.1871928/full

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