Kow Swamp Archaeological Site

Kow Swamp is now a permanent water body, due to its use for irrigation storage, 15 kilometres (9 mi) in circumference, with an average depth of 3 metres (10 ft).

Originally a low lying swamp, it was filled when the Murray River is in flood or running at high levels, while Bendigo creek provides a smaller amount of water.

In the 1960s, Alan Thorne also identified archaic bone from the collection at the Museum of Victoria, and traced the find spot to Kow Swamp.

[8] The varying morphological and metrical comparisons of the burials have distinguished them from modern Aboriginal crania[9] and also a more gracile group of Pleistocene remains found at Lake Mungo and Keilor.

[11] Following a campaign by Aboriginal community groups to have human remains repatriated from Australian and overseas museum collections, the Kow Swamp skeletons were returned to the area and re-interred.