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Past regained, future lost: the Kow Swamp Pleistocene burials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

D.J. Mulvaney
D.J. Mulvaney*
Affiliation:
Australian Academy of the Humanities, GPO Box 93, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
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The Kow Swamp collection of Pleistocene human remains from southeast Australia is perhaps the largest skeletal collection ever recovered from a single Pleistocene context. It was ‘returned’ for re-burial last year. John Mulvaney, a senior Australian prehistorian, reports on a situation in which the issues concerning the bones of ancient people are at their most acute.

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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 246 , March 1991 , pp. 12 - 21
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1991

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