Tarragal Caves - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Tarragal Caves - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Tarragal Caves are a network of large limestone caves and rockshelters which overlook the Bridgewater Lakes near the towns of Tarragal and Cape Bridgewater, Victoria in the Charles La Trobe and are near Discovery Bay Coastal Park. The caves were identified as important Aboriginal camping places early in the historic period, and were excavated in the late 1970s by Harry Lourandos,Lourandos, H. 1976 Aboriginal settlement and land use in south-western Victoria: a report on current field work. The Artefact l(4):174-93; Lourandos, H. 1983 Intensification: a Late Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sequence from south-western Victoria. ArchaeoZogy in Oceania 18(2):81-94 revealing stratified deposits in the floor of 11,300 years old, along with shell midden deposits and earth ovens over 11,000 years old.Ian D. Clark, 'The abode of malevolent spirits and creatures - Caves in Victorian Aboriginal social organization' Helictite, 40(1), 2007 Read more on Wikipedia
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