Shipwrecks and their cargo can be sites of conflict – but also opportunity.
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Submerged in the waters off Western Australia lies an ancient site home to Aboriginal people thousands of years ago, when sea levels were lower than they are today.
The destruction of the 46,000 year old site Juukan Gorge forces us to confront archaeology and history in Australia.
The largest animals on the planet - the baleen whales - prey on some of the smallest. But how did their teeth evolve into the filters they use today?
We used to think of sharks as primitive fish because the had cartilage instead of bones. Turns out there was a good reason why and it makes them anything but primitive.
The end-Triassic mass extinction may be better known for preceding the rise of the dinosaurs, but it had a profound effect on oceans too.
It looked more like the worm on an angler’s hook than any living fish we might recognise today but it still takes the record for the oldest known fish to date. The first fossil fishes are known from scant…
The study and preservation of Australia’s neglected and decaying historic shipwrecks stands to leap in sophistication through a new multi-disciplinary project. Bringing in expertise from behavioural archaeology…
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Emeritus Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Laureate Professor in Archaeology, The University of Western Australia
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Adjunct Research Associate, Monash University
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Curator of Vertebrates, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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ARC DECRA Research Fellow, Monash University
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Lecturer in Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton
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Sean Ulm is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, James Cook University
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Lecturer in Archaeology, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Geoscience, The University of Western Australia
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Marine Heritage Analyst and PhD Candidate, Flinders University
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Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of York
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Associate Professor in Maritime Archaeology, Flinders University and ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
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Maritime-Underwater Archaeologist and PhD Candidate on Archaeology (Humanities), Flinders University
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Associate Professor in Archaeology, Flinders University