Aboriginal Australian kitchen middens at Tower Hill show 5000-year-old Tasmanian devil bones. Greenstone axe heads and other artefacts excavated from the tuff indicated that Aboriginal people were resident in the area when the volcano erupted. A basalt tool dubbed the Bushfield Axe, found buried under volcanic ash near Tower Hill in 1947, was particularly significant. The evidence also aligns with local people's oral histories of volcanic eruptions, indicating the longevity of and truth contained in such histories. The Koroitgundidj people long inhabited this region of Australia and their descendants retain special links with the area.