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Tim Maloney

September 7, 2022

World’s earliest evidence of a successful surgical amputation found in 31,000‑year‑old grave in Borneo

Tim Ryan Maloney, Griffith University; Adam Brumm, Griffith University; Adhi Oktaviana, Griffith University; India Ella Dilkes-Hall, The University of Western Australia; Maxime Aubert, Griffith University; Melandri Vlok, University of Sydney, and Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Southern Cross University

An astonishing discovery from the oldest known grave in Southeast Asia has revised medical history – the previous known amputation surgery was just 7,000 years ago.

Mary Elizabeth Shutler in Vanuatu, in the1960s. Permitted to join the first archaeological expedition to New Caledonia in 1952 as a ‘voluntary assistant’, she was the only French speaker and chief interlocuter with the Kanak people. Family archives, reproduced with the kind authorisation of John Shutler & Susan Arter.

October 14, 2021

Friday essay: invisible no more – putting the first women archaeologists of the Pacific back on the map

Emilie Dotte-Sarout, The University of Western Australia and India Ella Dilkes-Hall, The University of Western Australia

‘Wives’, volunteers, assistants: the vital contribution of women archaeologists has long been underplayed, if not erased. A new project uncovers trailblazers in the Pacific.

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