Lancefield

A small swamp in south-central Victoria, Australia, containing bones of an extinct megafauna representing an estimated 10,000 individuals, dated to c 24,000 BC. Six species are represented, but Macropus titan, a giant kangaroo, predominates. A few stone tools have been found in the bone beds, indicating that men and megafauna were contemporary in the area, probably for 7000 years. Cut-marks on some bones have been interpreted as the teeth marks of the carnivorous predator Thylacoleo carnifex, an extinct marsupial carnivore.

A small swamp near Keilor, Victoria, Australia, containing bones of an extinct giant fauna representing an estimated 10,000 individuals, dated to c24,000 be. Six species are represented, but Macropus titan bones predominate. A few stone tools have been found in the bone beds indicating that men and megafauna were contemporary in the area, probably for 7000 years. Cut-marks on some bones have been interpreted as the teeth marks of the carniverous predator Thylacoleo carnifex, now extinct, and not as the result of human butchering. Evidence of the long association of humans and megafauna at Lancefield does not support the theory that rapid overkill by man led to the extinction of Pleistocene megafauna.