GunaiKurnai Elder Uncle Russell Mullett on the balcony of Cloggs Cave
Jessica Shapiro
A latest discovery in Cloggs cave, Australia, revealed one thing extraordinary about humanity’s relationship with time. A number of metres into the limestone grotto, archaeologists working with the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Company discovered telltale indicators of an historical ritual: two ceremonial sticks coated in animal fats and extremely particular burn marks. Right here is the wonderful half. The sticks had been 12,000 years outdated, they usually had been nearly equivalent to ones used for rituals within the late nineteenth century by native mulla-mullung, or sorcerers.
Meaning the GunaiKurnai folks…
