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A view looking up to the Windmill Way rockshelter with the archaeological excavation in progress. Lynley Wallis

Perfectly preserved rock art site reveals 1,700 years of Aboriginal string craft

Lynley Wallis, Griffith University; Christine Musgrave, Indigenous Knowledge; Heather Burke, Flinders University, and Roseanne George, Indigenous Knowledge

New research details Aboriginal craftsmanship – along with accompanying wall art – at a remote site in the Cape York Peninsula.
Djenj Project Gunbalanya School Trip. L-R Leeanna Namarnyilk, Diondre Cooper, Hayley Brinjin, Dionica Cooper, Morgan Disspain, Imogen Mangiru, Sharni Dirdi. Lynley Wallis

School of fish: how we involved Indigenous students in our investigation of a 65,000‑year‑old site

Morgan Disspain, Southern Cross University and Lynley Wallis, Griffith University

Archaeologists had some questions about an ancient Aboriginal site. So they involved the community and local school kids on their search for answers.
Ammunition found at a mounted police camp at Eyre Creek. Lynley Wallis

How unearthing Queensland’s ‘native police’ camps gives us a window onto colonial violence

Lynley Wallis, University of Notre Dame Australia; Bryce Barker, University of Southern Queensland, and Heather Burke, Flinders University

For 60 years, native police were deployed in Queensland to ‘disperse’ Aboriginal communities (a euphemism for systematic killing). Unearthing their camps is a key part of reckoning with the violence of those times.
The Madjedbebe excavation in the Northern Territory. Dominic O Brien/Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation

Buried tools and pigments tell a new history of humans in Australia for 65,000 years

Chris Clarkson, The University of Queensland; Ben Marwick, University of Washington; Lynley Wallis, University of Notre Dame Australia; Richard Law Kelsham Fullagar, University of Wollongong, and Zenobia Jacobs, University of Wollongong

A new study pushes back the first known evidence of human activity in Australia – to 65,000 years ago.
Space can be at a premium in cemeteries … and when it runs out, reusing old graves is an option. William Murphy/Flickr

Losing the plot: death is permanent, but your grave isn’t

Lynley Wallis, Griffith University; Alice Gorman, Flinders University, and Heather Burke, Flinders University

Headstones at the Dudley Park cemetery in Payneham, South Australia, were recently bulldozed as part of the ongoing “recycling” of more than 400 graves. Some people were shocked to realise that gravesites…

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