two miniature fireplaces with trimmed sticks immediately after they were exposed by excavation in Cloggs Cave

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   More fantastic news: archaeological research led by #GunaiKurnai Aboriginal Elders has demonstrated continuity of #ritual practice reaching back 500 generations to the last Ice Age.

   'GunaiKurnai Country, caves were not used as residential places during the early colonial period (mid-nineteenth century CE), but as secluded retreats for the performance of rituals by Aboriginal medicine men and and women known as ‘mulla-mullung’, as documented by ethnographers. Here we report the discovery of buried 11,000- and 12,000-year-old miniature fireplaces with protruding trimmed wooden artefacts made of Casuarina wood smeared with animal or human fat, matching the configuration and contents of GunaiKurnai ritual installations described in nineteenth-century ethnography.'

   #Australia #FirstNations #Indigenous #IndigenousCivilisation #archaeology

   https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01912-w