Kutikina Cave

Kutikina Cave is a rock shelter located on the Franklin River in the South West Wilderness, a World Heritage Area in the Australian state of Tasmania [1]. Originally referred to as Fraser Cave, it was important in the establishment of the antiquity and range of Aboriginal occupation in Tasmania during the Pleistocene [1]. The cave was discovered in 1977 by geomorphology student Kevin Keirnan and investigated by a team led by archeologists Don Ranson and Rhys Jones in the 1980s [1]. The cave has important archaeological deposits relating to human occupation in the Pleistocene, with evidence of wallaby hunting at a time the landscape was an open tundra and it was the most southerly human occupation in the world during the last ice age [1].