Kow Swamp Archaeological Site

Victoria, Australia

The Ghow Swamp Aboriginal Place, also known as the Kow Swamp archaeological site, is a protected Aboriginal place, gazetted in 2022 under the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006. The archaeological site contains the largest known single population of human skeletal remains from the late Pleistocene era, ranging from between 13,000 to 9,300 years ago. The remains are situated within the lunette of the eastern rim of a former wetland known as Ghow Swamp, in the North Central region of Victoria, Australia. The site is 10 kilometres (6 mi) south-east of Cohuna in the central Murray River valley and is significant for archaeological excavations by Alan Thorne between 1968 and 1972 which recovered the partial skeletal remains of more than 22 individuals.

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