Cloggs Cave

A limestone cave in northeastern Victoria, Australia, with human occupation deposits dating from c 16,000-7000 BC. Ochre and hearths as well as stone tools of the Australian Core Tool and Scraper Tradition have been found and the tools resemble similar Tasmanian artifacts. Bones of extinct animals found in deposits which are more than 20,000 years old and are separate from the human deposits. Australian Small Tool Tradition artifacts were excavated from late Holocene deposits in a rock shelter outside the main cave.

Limestone cave in the lower Snowy River valley, northeastern Victoria, Australia, with human occupation deposits which included ochre and hearths and are dated from about 16,000 to 7000 be. Stone tools belonging to the Australian Core Tool and Scraper tradition showed usewear interpreted as resulting from skinworking, and resembled similar Tasmanian artefacts. Bones of extinct animals (Sthenurus orientalis) were excavated from deposits more than 20,000 years old and separated from the human deposits. Australian Small Tool tradition artefacts were excavated from late Holocene deposits in a rock shelter outside the main cave.