The bones of the animal were found eroding from the ground. After careful analysis, it will be reburied on Country.
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Across the continent, diverse, adaptable fishing practices, recipes and rituals were a cornerstone of Indigenous life at the time of first contact – and many remain so to this day.
Cyclones, floods and other climate change-linked events are threatening Indigenous heritage tens of thousands of years old. Unless we act, they’ll be gone for good.
Undersea shell middens contain important clues about the past - what people ate, who they were interacting with and how the climate was changing. Now we have a better way to detect and excavate them.
The pharmaceutical waste from Buffalo City dump sites reveals that the sale of over-the-counter drugs remains vastly unregulated and under-researched.
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Barkindji/Malyangapa Indigenous Knowledge holder, Indigenous Knowledge
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Director, AIDS and Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town
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Kaurareg Elder and director of Kaurareg Native Title Aboriginal Corporation, Indigenous Knowledge
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