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Cuddie Springs
Cuddie Springs is a notable archaeological and paleontological site in the semi-arid zone of central northern New South Wales, Australia (near Brewarrina). Cuddie Springs is an open site, with the fossil deposits preserved in a claypan on the floor of an ancient ephemeral lake. The claypan fills with water after local rainstorms and often takes months to dry, a fact which facilitated the survival of fossils over a long period of time.
The site provided the first unequivocal association of stone artefacts with fossil remains of Australian megafauna. Cuddie Springs has been known as a fossil megafauna locality since the late 1870s, when a well was sunk into the centre of the claypan. The Australian Museum launched excavations in 1933 and while many bones were found, no archaeological discoveries were made in that initial research. More extensive excavations were conducted between 1991 and 1996 by a team from the University of New South Wales and were continued between 1997 and 2009 through the University of Sydney.
==Etymology==
It was recorded that the word 'Cuddy' in the language of the "Marra Blacks" means bad.〔Anderson, C. & Fletcher, H.O., (1934) The Cuddie Springs Bone Bed ''The Australian Museum Magazine'': 152-158〕 This has been interpreted as a reference to the quality of the water found in the Cuddie lake, which is alkaline with a pH between 7 and 9.〔Judith Furby, (1995) ''Megafauna under the microscope: archaeology and palaeoenvironment at Cuddie Springs''〕 Despite the name, Cuddie Springs is an ephemeral lake, and not a spring.
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