Caroline Spry

The wangim (boomerang) found at Yarra Junction. Zara Lasky-Davison/Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation

October 21, 2025

How forensic analysis and traditional knowledge reveal the story of a unique boomerang

Caroline Spry, La Trobe University; Allan Wandin, Indigenous Knowledge; Bob Mullins, Indigenous Knowledge; Diane Kerr, Indigenous Knowledge; Elspeth Hayes, University of Wollongong, and Ron Jones, Indigenous Knowledge

Grip marks, blood and fire damage hint at the fascinating history of a non-returning boomerang.

Earth ring on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country, near Sunbury, Victoria. David Mullins

January 7, 2025

Caroline Spry, La Trobe University; Allan Wandin, Indigenous Knowledge; Bob Mullins, Indigenous Knowledge, and Ron Jones, Indigenous Knowledge

Archaeologists and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people are shedding new light on a series of enigmatic earth rings located in southeastern Australia.

Caroline Spry

November 22, 2023

Caroline Spry, La Trobe University; Brian J Armstrong, The University of Melbourne; Greg Ingram, Indigenous Knowledge; Ian Sutherland, Indigenous Knowledge, and Lawrence Conyers, University of Denver

A new study unlocks the mysteries of ancient burial marker trees made by Wiradjuri people in southeastern Australia.

Caroline Spry

June 10, 2020

Caroline Spry, La Trobe University; Brian J Armstrong, University of Johannesburg; Elspeth Hayes, University of Wollongong; John Allan Webb, La Trobe University; Kathryn Allen, The University of Melbourne; Lisa Paton, University of New England; Quan Hua, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, and Richard Law Kelsham Fullagar, University of Wollongong

An Aboriginal tree on Wiradjuri Country is much younger than anybody thought.

How our ancestors ate could explain why today’s humans are mostly right-handed. Flickr/Hugo Martins

January 10, 2017

Caroline Spry, La Trobe University

The way early humans learned to handle food could explain why the majority of people today are right handed.