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A Late Quaternary Vertebrate Deposit In Kudjal Yolgah Cave, South-Western Australia: Refining Regional Late Pleistocene Extinctions, Nathan Jankowski, Grant A. Gully, Zenobia Jacobs, Richard G. Roberts, Gavin J. Prideaux

Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: Part B

We describe the stratigraphy and chronology of Kudjal Yolgah Cave in south-western Australia, a late Quaternary deposit pre- and post-dating regional human arrival and preserving fossils of extinct and extant fauna. Single-grain optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating shows that seven superposed units were deposited over the past 80 ka. Remains of 16 mammal species have been found at the site, all of them represented in Unit 7, for which seven OSL ages indicate accumulation between 80 and 41 ka. Single-grain OSL equivalent dose distribution patterns show no evidence of reworking of older or younger sediments into Unit 7, but late …