Kow Swamp

Julie Lahn

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Kow Swamp

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Kow Swamp is the name given to the largest Late Pleistocene cemetery thus far found in Australia. Site excavations led by Alan Thorne in the late 1960s and early 1970s revealed skeletal material belonging to more than 40 individuals with ages ranging from infant to adult. All but one were male. The morphological character of the material presented an important challenge to existing evolutionary theories of human settlement in Australia. Amid controversy, in 1991, the collection was repatriated to Aboriginal people and subsequently reinterred, heralding a significant shift in the ethics of conducting archaeological research to include a greater involvement with Indigenous Australians.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology
Editors	Claire Smith
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	4323-4328pp
Volume	11
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	9781441904263
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_27
Publication status	Published - 2014

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