Microscopic plant remains reveal 25,000 years of GunaiKurnai rituals deep in a Victorian cave

GunaiKurnai Elder Uncle Russell Mullett at entrance to Cloggs Cave. GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation. Deeply etched into a cliff face in GunaiKurnai Country, near the township of Buchan in East Gippsland in rural Victoria, is a large limestone cave that hosts an extraordinary story. Today, the area outside Cloggs Cave is mainly grassland and open woodland, with eucalypt forests further behind the cave. But this was not always so. The environment changed as the last ice age…