Geoff Bailey – The Conversation

Divers excavate a shallow water submerged Mesolithic midden off the island of Hjarnø, Denmark. J. Benjamin.

March 22, 2021

Ancient undersea middens offer clues about life before rising seas engulfed the coast. Now we have a better way to study them

Katherine Woo, James Cook University; Geoff Bailey, University of York; Jessica Cook Hale, University of Georgia; Jonathan Benjamin, Flinders University, and Sean Ulm, James Cook University

Undersea shell middens contain important clues about the past - what people ate, who they were interacting with and how the climate was changing. Now we have a better way to detect and excavate them.

S Wright

July 1, 2020

In a first discovery of its kind, researchers have uncovered an ancient Aboriginal archaeological site preserved on the seabed

Jonathan Benjamin, Flinders University; Geoff Bailey, University of York; Jo McDonald, The University of Western Australia; Michael O'Leary, The University of Western Australia, and Sean Ulm, James Cook University

Submerged in the waters off Western Australia lies an ancient site home to Aboriginal people thousands of years ago, when sea levels were lower than they are today.

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