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Kutikina Cave

Rock shelter on the Franklin River, Tasmania, the southernmost known human habitation during the last ice age.

Dated events and their evidence

• 18,000 BCE mainstream
  Occupation begins c. 20,000 years BP (Kiernan, Jones & Ranson 1983, Nature: 'dated at 15-20 kyr BP'). source
• 13,000 BCE mainstream
  Dated occupation sequence ends c. 15,000 years BP (same paper). source
• 1981 CE mainstream
  Excavated by Rhys Jones and Kevin Kiernan during the Franklin Dam protests. source

Where

42.5283° S, 145.7690° E

Sources

• https://www.odysseytraveller.com/articles/ice-age-archaeological-sites-of-the-tasmanian-wilderness-world-heritage-area-australia/
• https://doi.org/10.1038/301028a0
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutikina_Cave

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