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The excavation team at Juukan Gorge in 2014. Courtesy of Scarp Archaeology and PKKP Aboriginal Corporation

The first published results from Juukan Gorge show 47,000 years of Aboriginal heritage was destroyed in mining blast

Michael Slack, James Cook University; Jordan Ralph, Flinders University, and Wallace Boone Law, University of Adelaide

The Juukan 2 rockshelter was blown up in 2020. The results of an archaeological dig carried out six years earlier are only now being published for the first time.
S Wright

In a first discovery of its kind, researchers have uncovered an ancient Aboriginal archaeological site preserved on the seabed

Jonathan Benjamin, Flinders University; Geoff Bailey, University of York; Jo McDonald, The University of Western Australia; Michael O'Leary, The University of Western Australia, and Sean Ulm, James Cook University

Submerged in the waters off Western Australia lies an ancient site home to Aboriginal people thousands of years ago, when sea levels were lower than they are today.
Uncle Fred Deeral as little old man in the film The Message, by Zakpage, to be shown at the National Museum of Australia in April. Nik Lachajczak of Zakpage

An honest reckoning with Captain Cook’s legacy won’t heal things overnight. But it’s a start

Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation

An honest reckoning with Captain Cook’s legacy won’t heal things overnight. But it’s a start The Conversation41.4 MB (download)
The impact of 1770 has never eased for Aboriginal people. It was a collision of catastrophic proportions.
The government intends to destroy Djab Wurrung sacred trees and sites to upgrade the Western Highway at the same time as it seeks heritage status for the Eastern Freeway. Allies Decolonising/gofundme

What kind of state values a freeway’s heritage above the heritage of our oldest living culture?

Libby Porter, RMIT University; Amaara Raheem, RMIT University; Blanche Verlie, RMIT University; Bronwyn Lay, RMIT University; Marianne Jago, James Cook University, and Mick Douglas, RMIT University

The Victorian government plans to destroy trees and sites sacred to Djab Warrung people to make way for the Western Highway at the same time as it seeks heritage listing for the Eastern Freeway.
Humans would have first seen Kata Tjuta very shortly after arriving in Australia 50,000 years ago. Alan Cooper

When did Aboriginal people first arrive in Australia?

Alan Cooper, University of Adelaide; Alan N Williams, UNSW Sydney, and Nigel Spooner, University of Adelaide

Aboriginal Australians have effectively been on their country for as long as modern human populations have been outside of Africa. We have a limit as to how long ago that was: around 50,000 years.
The battle for the Franklin River runs far deeper than simply providing the backdrop for a political tug-of-war. PETER DOMBROVSKIS/ LIZ DOMBROVSKIS/AAP

Essays On Air: how archaeology helped save the Franklin River

Billy Griffiths, Deakin University

Essays on Air: how archaeology helped save the Franklin River The Conversation23.2 MB (download)
The battle to save the Franklin River - an exhilarating story of politics, cultural heritage and passionate environmentalism - captivated the nation in 1983.
The Madjedbebe excavation in the Northern Territory. Dominic O Brien/Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation

Buried tools and pigments tell a new history of humans in Australia for 65,000 years

Chris Clarkson, The University of Queensland; Ben Marwick, University of Washington; Lynley Wallis, University of Notre Dame Australia; Richard Law Kelsham Fullagar, University of Wollongong, and Zenobia Jacobs, University of Wollongong

A new study pushes back the first known evidence of human activity in Australia – to 65,000 years ago.
The Tent Embassy in Canberra has for decades been symbolic of the tensions in Australian cities about recognition, reconciliation and land justice. Dylan Wood/AAP

How can we meaningfully recognise cities as Indigenous places?

Libby Porter, RMIT University

Imagine if we did urban development in a way that honours Indigenous histories, knowledge and relationships with those places.
Professor Eske Willerslev talks to Aboriginal elders in the Kalgoorlie area in southwestern Australia. Preben Hjort, Mayday Film

DNA reveals a new history of the First Australians

Michael Westaway, Griffith University; Claire Bowern, Yale University; David Lambert, Griffith University; Joanne Wright, Griffith University, and Sankar Subramanian, Griffith University

New DNA research working with Indigenous Australians is answering many of the questions about when and where the First Australians emerged many thousands of years ago.
The original excavation of Mungo Man, found near Lake Mungo in southwestern New South Wales, Australia. Wilfred Shawcross.

New DNA study confirms ancient Aborigines were the First Australians

David Lambert, Griffith University; Joanne Wright, Griffith University; Michael Westaway, Griffith University, and Sankar Subramanian, Griffith University

Research first published in 2001 has been used to question of whether Aboriginal People were the First Australians. So why not re-test those results with improved techniques and equipment?

Related Topics

  1. Aboriginal culture
  2. Aboriginal history
  3. Aboriginal tradition
  4. Archeology
  5. First Australians
  6. Indigenous culture
  7. Indigenous heritage
  8. Indigenous peoples
  9. Indigenous rights
  10. Western Australia

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