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Cloggs Cave is a limestone cave and rockshelter with significant Aboriginal archaeological deposits, located on a cliff along the Snowy River gorge near the town of Buchan, Victoria.[1]

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  1. 24 relations: Aboriginal Australians, Australia, Australian megafauna, Bogong moth, Buchan Caves, Buchan, Victoria, Collagen, Fluorescence, Gunaikurnai people, Josephine Flood, Limestone, Marsupial, Microscopic scale, Millstone, Monash University, Native title in Australia, New Guinea II cave, Ochre, Oral tradition, Pleistocene, Protein, Rock shelter, Snowy River, Stone tool.

  2. Caves of Victoria (state)
  3. Pleistocene paleontological sites of Australia
  4. Rock shelters in Australia

Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian megafauna

The term Australian megafauna refers to the megafauna in Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch.

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Bogong moth

The bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) is a temperate species of night-flying moth, notable for its biannual long-distance seasonal migrations towards and from the Australian Alps, similar to the diurnal monarch butterfly.

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Buchan Caves

The Buchan Caves are a group of limestone caves that include the Royal Cave and the Fairy Cave, located south-west of, in the East Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria. Cloggs Cave and Buchan Caves are caves of Victoria (state).

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Buchan, Victoria

Buchan is a town in the east Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia.

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Collagen

Collagen is the main structural protein in the extracellular matrix of a body's various connective tissues.

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Fluorescence

Fluorescence is one of two kinds of emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation.

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Gunaikurnai people

The Gunaikurnai or Gunai/Kurnai people, also referred to as the Gunnai or Kurnai, are an Aboriginal Australian nation of south-east Australia.

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Josephine Flood

Josephine Mary Flood, (née Scarr, born 25 July 1936) is an English-born Australian archaeologist, mountaineer, and author.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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Marsupial

Marsupials are a diverse group of mammals belonging to the infraclass Marsupialia.

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Microscopic scale

The microscopic scale is the scale of objects and events smaller than those that can easily be seen by the naked eye, requiring a lens or microscope to see them clearly.

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Millstone

Millstones or mill stones are stones used in gristmills, used for triturating, crushing or, more specifically, grinding wheat or other grains.

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Monash University

Monash University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Native title in Australia

Native title is the set of rights, recognised by Australian law, held by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups or individuals to land that derive from their maintenance of their traditional laws and customs.

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New Guinea II cave

New Guinea II is a limestone cave and rockshelter on the Snowy River at the end of New Guinea Track, near Buchan, Victoria. Cloggs Cave and new Guinea II cave are caves of Victoria (state), history of Victoria (state), Pleistocene paleontological sites of Australia and rock shelters in Australia.

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Ochre

Ochre, iron ochre, or ocher in American English, is a natural clay earth pigment, a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand.

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Oral tradition

Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Protein

Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.

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Rock shelter

A rock shelter (also rockhouse, crepuscular cave, bluff shelter, or abri) is a shallow cave-like opening at the base of a bluff or cliff.

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Snowy River

The Snowy River is a major river in south-eastern Australia.

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Stone tools have been used throughout human history but are most closely associated with prehistoric cultures and in particular those of the Stone Age.

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See also

Caves of Victoria (state)

Pleistocene paleontological sites of Australia

Rock shelters in Australia

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloggs_Cave

Also known as Clogg's Cave.