Tantalizing glimpses into life and death in pre-colonial Australia are written on the bones of a skeleton found in New South Wales. A Crushing Blow Nicknamed Kaakutja, meaning “older brother,” this skeleton of an Aboriginal man (right) rested for some 800 years near a southern Australian riverbank before being found […]
Aboriginal
Aboriginal Australians co-existed with the megafauna for at least 17,000 years
Authors Michael Westaway Senior Research Fellow, Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University Jon Olley Professor of Water Science, Griffith University Rainer Grun Professor of Archaeogeochemistry, Griffith University Disclosure statement Michael Westaway receives funding from the Australian Research Council. This research was supported by the Three Tribal Groups of the […]
The Political Uses of Australian Genocide
Ray Gibbons (2015) Abstract: This is a summary document of a more detailed semantic typology of mass killing and its variant terms, as they applied to Australia. The investigative methodology makes extensive use of modelling. Massacre events are presented as a nested type instance of the relevant process. Intentionality is […]
How to get to Australia … more than 50,000 years ago
May 21, 2018 5.48am AEST Authors Sean Ulm Sean Ulm is a Friend of The Conversation. Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, James Cook University Alan Cooper Alan Cooper Director, Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, University of Adelaide Michael Bird Michael Bird is a Friend […]