• Director Scarp Archaelogy, Adjunct Associate Professor of Archaeology James Cook University, Partner Investigator Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, James Cook University
The excavation team at Juukan Gorge in 2014. Courtesy of Scarp Archaeology and PKKP Aboriginal Corporation

The first published results from Juukan Gorge show 47,000 years of Aboriginal heritage was destroyed in mining blast

The Juukan 2 rockshelter was blown up in 2020. The results of an archaeological dig carried out six years earlier are only now being published for the first time.

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