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GunaiKurnai Elder Uncle Russell Mullett at entrance to Cloggs Cave, East Gippsland. Jess Shapiro, courtesy GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation

July 1, 2024

Oldest living culture: our new research shows an Indigenous ritual passed down for 500 generations

Russell Mullett, Indigenous Knowledge; Ashleigh Rogers, Monash University; Bruno David, Monash University; Carney D. Matheson, Griffith University; Fiona Petchey, University of Waikato, and Nathan Wright, University of New England

Matching new archological findings with ethnographic records, we can show ritual fireplaces have been in continuous use for at least 12,000 years.

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November 9, 2023

Farmers or foragers? Pre‑colonial Aboriginal food production was hardly that simple

Michael Westaway, The University of Queensland; Alison Crowther, The University of Queensland; Nathan Wright, University of New England; Robert Henry, The University of Queensland, and Rodney Carter, Indigenous Knowledge

For a decade, debate has raged over Dark Emu’s account of Aboriginal agriculture. But ancient food production in Australia is more complex than labels like farming or hunter-gathering suggest.

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June 3, 2020

Penelitian baru petakan kekerasan dalam konflik yang terlupakan di Papua Barat

Camellia Webb-Gannon, University of Wollongong; Jaime Swift, University of Oxford; Michael Westaway, The University of Queensland, and Nathan Wright, The University of Queensland

Untuk menarik perhatian pada konflik baru di Papua Barat, peneliti Australia menengok puluhan tahun ke belakang untuk mendokumentasikan insiden kekerasan dalam proyek pemetaan baru.

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May 14, 2020

Fight for freedom: new research to map violence in the forgotten conflict in West Papua

Camellia Webb-Gannon, University of Wollongong; Jaime Swift, University of Oxford; Michael Westaway, The University of Queensland, and Nathan Wright, The University of Queensland

To bring attention to the renewed conflict in West Papua, Australian researchers are going back decades to document incidents of violence in a new mapping project.

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