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Archaeological site in northern Victoria, Australia, excavated by Alan Thorne in the late 1960s and 1970s, consisting of the burials of forty individuals. The earliest burials at Kow Swamp are dated between 13,000 and 9,500 years ago. Thorne initially believed the robust skulls belonged to Homo erectus--but the dates are far too late for that and the skulls do not match modern understandings of H. erectus characteristics. Researchers today believe that the Kow Swamp skeletons are evidence of changes in human skeletal morphology in the last 10,000 years.
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• The genus Homo
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