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Melissa Meehan

Cave uncovers 12,000-year-old 'time capsule' to Ice Age

The research found sticks smeared with animal or human fat were used in ancient Indigenous rituals. (Supplied by Monash University/AAP PHOTOS)

Indigenous rituals dating back to the end of the last Ice Age have been unearthed by researchers in a Victorian limestone cave.

A partnership between the GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation and Monash University allowed researchers to excavate two small fire places in Cloggs Cave in the state's Gippsland region. 

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