Shaun Adams

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Queensland Police Museum

Isotope analysis helps tell the stories of Aboriginal people living under early colonial expansion

Shaun Adams, Griffith University; David McGahan, Griffith University; Mark Collard, Simon Fraser University; Michael Westaway, The University of Queensland, and Richard Martin, The University of Queensland

Research conducted with Gkuthaarn and Kukatj community members helps paint a picture of the lives of eight young Aboriginal people who lived during early colonial expansion.
Working out where Aboriginal remains came from will in take researchers from several disciplines working together. Michael Westaway

Returning to country: we should use genetics, geology and more to repatriate Aboriginal remains

Mark Collard, Simon Fraser University; Adrian Miller, CQUniversity Australia; Joanne Wright, Griffith University; Michael Westaway, The University of Queensland, and Shaun Adams, Griffith University

It’s not always easy to work out where Aboriginal remains came from, but science can help.
Normanton Aboriginal rangers and archaeologists reburying the skeletal remains of Gkuthaarn and Kukatj children back on country. Michael Westaway

Where did you grow up? How strontium in your teeth can help answer that question

Shaun Adams, Griffith University and Michael Westaway, Griffith University

How do you return Aboriginal remains to their place of origin when you have no record of where they came from? Look to a chemical element that’s laid down in teeth as people grow up.

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