With 300 stone artefacts submerged on Australia’s continental shelf last year, Indigenous underwater cultural heritage needs to be prioritised in marine science and industry practices.
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The Su-re site has provided a historical connection between local Tibetans in the highlands with Nepali Sherpas in the Himalayan lowlands.
There is not much information on artefacts used by Stone Age humans to make sound and music – but the first comprehensive survey is a good start.
Coins have always conveyed a message and, helpfully for historians, they are anchored to a specific time and space. Rome’s emperors used coins to push their political agendas.
The COVID-19 pandemic has closed museums and cultural sites worldwide. Meanwhile, curators are already working hard to preserve the current moment so that future generations may understand it.
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The sounds our ancestors made are important because they teach us about spaces and behaviour and rituals of the time.
Working with bone artefacts from archaeological sites in South Africa’s southern Cape region, we’ve been able to show that some implements might have been used for sound production in the past.
Museums are experimenting with 3D printed replicas of artefacts – meaning that the public can get closer to cultural heritage than ever.
Mongolia’s important historical sites are under threat from climate change and looting - and one exacerbates the other.
The possible join between the fragments of an ancient epic written in cuneiform in London and Geneva has been speculated for over 50 years.
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PhD Candidate, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor in Maritime Archaeology, Flinders University and ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
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Sean Ulm is a Friend of The Conversation.
Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, James Cook University
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Reader in Computer Science and Leader of Software and Systems Engineering Research, Keele University
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Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer in Electronic Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Endeavor Fellow, Flinders University; Director, NOMAD Science, Flinders University
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Professor of Cultural Computing, Director NVIDIA Joint-Lab on Mixed Reality, University of Nottingham
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Privatdozent (Associate Professor), Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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ARC DECRA Fellow, Flinders University
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PhD Candidate, University of Brighton
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