Latest articles from Australian Archaeology
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New Forum in Australian Archaeology: “Voice: A Third Space in Archaeology to Advance Indigenous Emancipation,” with commentaries & authors’ response.
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06.11.2025 22:41 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
New in Australian Archaeology: pXRF sourcing of stone artefacts from Kings Table & Dargan shelters shows dynamic movement and changing pathways across the Blue Mountains since the LGM. 🔓🔽
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23.10.2025 23:56 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
How do you learn a boomerang’s life story? Forensic analysis + Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung knowledge reveal manufacture, use, repair and cultural significance of a unique wangim.
Read in The Conversation: theconversation.com/how-forensic...
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22.10.2025 22:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How forensic analysis and traditional knowledge reveal the story of a unique boomerang
Grip marks, blood and fire damage hint at the fascinating history of a non-returning boomerang.
Our new study of an Australian boomerang 🪃 is out! ‘How forensic analysis & traditional knowledge reveal the story of a unique boomerang’ in The Conversation: theconversation.com/how-forensic...
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21.10.2025 22:10 — 👍 24 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
A prestige, multifunctional tool: New paper combines cultural knowledge with functional analysis to trace how a Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung wangim (boomerang) was made, used, and cared for. 🔓⬇️
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22.10.2025 21:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Record in Bone “contributes to the broader Australian archaeological discipline and should be in the library of any general archaeologist, zooarchaeologist, or cultural heritage practitioner”. Carly Monks reviews ‘A Record in Bone’ by Michelle Langley. 🔽
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13.10.2025 21:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Australian Archaeology Volume 91 Issue 2 is now complete and available online. All original articles are open access! 🔑⬇️
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21.09.2025 05:18 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
New research! Excavations at Giligilina, on Papua New Guinea’s south coast, uncover Lapita pottery and shed new light on Late Lapita seafaring networks across Oceania, Torres Strait and the Australian coast.🔓
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10.09.2025 02:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New research by Shaye Fraser and colleagues shows nearly 60% of Registered Aboriginal Places on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country are associated with volcanic stony rises—landforms now under threat from urban growth. 🔓
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08.09.2025 23:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Georgia Stannard reviews Teaching Ancient Australia by Duncan Wright and Dave Johnston as “accurate, accessible, and built on community-based case studies.”
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01.09.2025 22:42 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
How did marine shells end up 200 km inland? Walufeni Cave reveals a 3,250-year-old story of trade, migration and cultural connection across Papua New Guinea’s Great Papuan Plateau.🔓⤵️
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24.08.2025 22:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Check out new article by Jamie Rachcoff, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation and colleagues, who are using LiDAR to identify earth rings on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country.
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13.08.2025 02:23 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New article by Madeleine Kelly and colleagues document rare ‘finger flutings’—marks made when people run their fingers along soft cave walls and ceilings—in New Guinea II Cave, GunaiKurnai Country, Gippsland. 🔑🔓⬇️
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28.07.2025 23:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s time to give you (and us) a little pat on the back:
Australian Archaeology has DOUBLED our downloads since last year. Thank you to everyone who supports the journal and archaeological research in Australia. 🎉🎈🎊
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28.05.2025 00:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Exploring the need and potential for national Indigenous heritage legislation in Australia: Forum Response
Published in Australian Archaeology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
Papers in AA’s national Indigenous heritage legislation forum:
McConnell et al. reflects on their reform proposals and clarifies the roles for both State and Federal jurisdictions in managing Aboriginal heritage into the future.
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27.05.2025 02:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The case for a new national Indigenous heritage protection act
Published in Australian Archaeology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
Papers in AA’s national Indigenous heritage legislation forum:
Peter Veth analyses key theoretical and practical aspects of designing and implementing a national heritage legislation and how it might operate 'on the ground'.
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26.05.2025 22:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The devil’s in the detail: The challenges of enacting rights-based heritage legislation in Australia
Published in Australian Archaeology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
Papers in AA’s national Indigenous heritage legislation forum:
Andrew Sneddon analyses rights-based heritage approaches, as supported by Australia ICOMOS, the Burra Charter & his personal experience in Aboriginal heritage management.
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26.05.2025 04:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The critical need for cultural heritage legislation reform: Reimagining the boundaries of change
Published in Australian Archaeology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
AA’s national Indigenous heritage legislation forum:
Pekeri Ruska analyses the proposed framework from a legal perspective and reviews recent failings by the Commonwealth in meeting Indigenous heritage protection aspirations.
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22.05.2025 22:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why wait until it’s too late? A precautionary tale for Indigenous cultural heritage protection in Australia
Published in Australian Archaeology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
Papers in AA’s national Indigenous heritage legislation forum:
Michelle Richards examines some of the theoretical elements and reflects on the ways theoretical arguments about heritage policy &legislation have been cast.
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22.05.2025 07:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reflections of a former Aboriginal cultural heritage regulator
Published in Australian Archaeology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Rosalie Neve analyses a specific case and sheds further light on the issues that brought about the calls for national legislation in the first place.
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20.05.2025 22:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cast in a supporting role: The Australian Archaeological Association Inc. and national heritage legislation
Published in Australian Archaeology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Rebekah Kurpiel examines the practical side of the debate and considers how an organisation like the Australian Archaeological Association should be involved.
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19.05.2025 23:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
WA’s heritage laws are failing—and it’s a national problem
Published in Australian Archaeology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
Papers in AA’s national Indigenous heritage legislation forum:
Fiona Hook highlights the proposed provisions that limit the ability of Traditional Owners to override government decisions to destroy significant heritage places.
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14.05.2025 02:12 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The top-down approach is the only way to avoid going bottom-up
Published in Australian Archaeology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Neale Draper provides an analysis of the practical aspects of national heritage legislation and how it might operate ‘on the ground’.
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13.05.2025 00:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Aligning Indigenous ontologies and legislation: Resisting Western formulations of intangible heritage and values approaches
Published in Australian Archaeology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Steve Brown offers novel perspectives on heritage discourse, in particular his challenging of the concept of ‘intangible heritage’.
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11.05.2025 23:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Latest articles from Australian Archaeology
Browse the latest articles and research from Australian Archaeology
Does Australia need national Indigenous heritage legislation? What form should it take? Check out AA's Forum, with McConnell et al.'s original article and response and 9 commentary articles, addressing these (+more) questions.
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www.tandfonline.com/toc/raaa20/0/0
06.05.2025 23:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
NOW OPEN: Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Coastal Archaeology
For PhD research on the coastal archaeology of GunaiKurnai Country (Gippsland, Victoria) for up to 3 years. Closes 9/7/2025
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30.04.2025 02:19 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
‘In a unique and terrible way, Stanner’s cautions are still relevant and his rhetoric sharp.’
Cate Sexton and Claire Smith review an anthology of W.E.H. Stanner’s writings on Australian Aboriginal culture and societies more than 50 years after they were written.🔽
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08.04.2025 22:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New article by Bruno David and colleagues advocates for the importance of identifying short-term and momentary events in the archaeological record through case studies from around Australia. 🔑🔓🔽
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01.04.2025 21:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
