Submerged Indigenous heritage sites – called Sea Country by many First Nations peoples – are at risk of being lost because of blind spots in Australia’s environmental management policies, according to two new studies published in Australian Archaeology. The first study, led by John McCarthy of Flinders University, highlighted that the waters north of Northern …Continue readingLack of marine policies place submerged Aboriginal heritage sites at risk
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Rewind: Six of the best from 2020
Did you know the Royal Institution of Australia has other platforms? We’d like to introduce you to some of the content we’re producing outside of our news site, so here’s a collection of great stories, films and education resources curated by Royal Institution staff. FILM: Underfrog A young filmmaker looks at the ecological impact of …Continue readingRewind: Six of the best from 2020
The Australian story, told beneath the sea
Submerged archaeological sites discovered off Australia’s northwest coast offer a new window into the migrations, lives and cultures of Aboriginal people thousands of years ago, when the continental shelf was dry. This was a time when around 20 million square kilometres of land was exposed, before the last glacial loosened its grip on the planet …Continue readingThe Australian story, told beneath the sea
Evidence of Indigenous botanical knowledge
Australia’s first plant foods – eaten by early populations 65,000 years ago – have been discovered in Arnhem Land. Preserved as pieces of charcoal, the morsels were recovered from the debris of ancient cooking hearths at the Madjedbebe archaeological site, on Mirarr country in northern Australia. Anna Florin, an archaeobotanist from the University of Queensland …Continue readingEvidence of Indigenous botanical knowledge
Indigenous youth suicide rates
A new systematic review has shed light on the risk factors and prevalence of suicide, self-harm and suicide ideation among Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth. The review, which included 22 empirical articles, highlights substantially increased suicide rates among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth compared to non-Indigenous Australian youth, confirming the emergence of …Continue readingIndigenous youth suicide rates
Indigenous arrival huge planned migration
第一的人口需要的大小to arrive, survive, and thrive in what is now Australia is revealed in two studies. It took more than 1,000 people to form a viable population. But this was no accidental mass migration, as our work shows the first arrivals must have been planned. Our data …Continue readingIndigenous arrival huge planned migration