Grass 'skeletons' hint at 25,000-year-old Indigenous fire ritual in cave

Burnt grass remains discovered in a Victorian cave on GunaiKurnai country are offering evidence of Indigenous fire rituals dating back twenty-five thousand years. Per ABC News, these charred botanical 'skeletons' suggest that ancient ancestors deliberately performed fire rituals during the Ice Age—a finding that illuminates Indigenous Australian knowledge and practices from that distant era.

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