The tools reveal how Aboriginal ancestors survived and thrived in the continent’s interior more than 100 years ago.
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Having to protect and conserve drinking water and its sources is as relevant today as it always has been.
Shipwrecks and their cargo can be sites of conflict – but also opportunity.
This Egyptian noblewoman was sweetly scented upon her death, researchers have discovered. And they’ve teamed up with a perfumer to recreate her scent.
Through collector Jordan’s fetishistic interest in Asian women, Beef shows the troubling link between collecting artefacts and sexual control.
An international legal expert explains why the Greeks are right to be wary of the British Museum’s offer to loan them the Parthenon marbles.
The huge gathering of policymakers focused on culture’s crucial role in sustainable development.
Cultural artifacts are at risk of destruction during war, but Ukrainian archivists, curators and librarians have been working to protect them during the war.
With 300 stone artefacts submerged on Australia’s continental shelf last year, Indigenous underwater cultural heritage needs to be prioritised in marine science and industry practices.
The Su-re site has provided a historical connection between local Tibetans in the highlands with Nepali Sherpas in the Himalayan lowlands.
There is not much information on artefacts used by Stone Age humans to make sound and music – but the first comprehensive survey is a good start.
Coins have always conveyed a message and, helpfully for historians, they are anchored to a specific time and space. Rome’s emperors used coins to push their political agendas.
The COVID-19 pandemic has closed museums and cultural sites worldwide. Meanwhile, curators are already working hard to preserve the current moment so that future generations may understand it.
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The sounds our ancestors made are important because they teach us about spaces and behaviour and rituals of the time.
Working with bone artefacts from archaeological sites in South Africa’s southern Cape region, we’ve been able to show that some implements might have been used for sound production in the past.
Museums are experimenting with 3D printed replicas of artefacts – meaning that the public can get closer to cultural heritage than ever.
Mongolia’s important historical sites are under threat from climate change and looting - and one exacerbates the other.
The possible join between the fragments of an ancient epic written in cuneiform in London and Geneva has been speculated for over 50 years.
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of Tübingen
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Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Indigenous Knowledge Holder, Pitta Pitta Aboriginal Corporation, Indigenous Knowledge
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Senior Lecturer in Electronic Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Endeavor Fellow, Flinders University; Director, NOMAD Science, Flinders University
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Reader in Computer Science and Leader of Software and Systems Engineering Research, Keele University
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Associate Professor, Australian Catholic University
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Privatdozent (Associate Professor), Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
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Principal Lecturer, University of Brighton
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Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Digital Media, author of Hacking in the Humanities (Bloomsbury 2022), Brock University
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Research Associate Professor (tenured), French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas
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Research Fellow, Griffith University