Interpreting the mammal deposits of Cloggs Cave (SE Australia), GunaiKurnai Aboriginal Country, through community-led partnership research ...

Palaeontological animal bone deposits are rarely investigated through research partnerships where the local First Nations communities have a defining hand in both the research questions asked and the research processes. Here we report research undertaken through such a partnership approach at the ic...

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Main Authors: McDowell, Matthew, David, Bruno, Mullett, Russell, Fresløv, Joanna, Delannoy, Jean-Jacques, Mialanes, Jerome, Ash, Jeremy, Crouch, Joe, Petchey, Fiona, Buettel, Jessie, Arnold, Lee
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Dryad 2022
Subjects:
FOS Natural sciences
Biogeographic change
Climate change
East Gippsland
First Nations landscapes
GunaiKurnai
Owl accumulation
Partnership research
small mammals
First Nations
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.kh1893298
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.kh1893298
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Summary:Palaeontological animal bone deposits are rarely investigated through research partnerships where the local First Nations communities have a defining hand in both the research questions asked and the research processes. Here we report research undertaken through such a partnership approach at the iconic archaeological site of Cloggs Cave (GunaiKurnai Country, East Gippsland), in the southern foothills of SE Australia’s Great Dividing Range. A new excavation was combined with detailed chronometric dating, high-resolution 3D mapping, and geomorphological studies. This allowed for the interpretation of a sequence of stratigraphic layers spanning from a lowermost excavated mixed layer dated to between 25,640–48,470 cal BP, to a dense set of uppermost, ash layers dated to between 1460–3360 cal BP. This long and well-dated chronostratigraphic sequence enabled temporal trends in the abundant small mammal remains to be examined. The fossil assemblage consists of at least 31 taxa of mammals which change in ...

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