Smithsonian Magazine

The Search for Aboriginal History Off the Coast of Australia

Archaeologists exploring the waters near Western Australia’s Murujuga are finding ancient sites a short dive below the sea’s surface Clare Watson, Hakai Magazine Archaeologists exploring the submerged ...
Live Science

47,000 years of Aboriginal history destroyed in mining blast in Australia

Humans used the now-destroyed rockshelter throughout the last ice age until just a few decades ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...
CNN

Australia’s indigenous people have a solution for the country’s bushfires. And it’s been around for 50,000 years

Here’s how it works. Aboriginal people had a deep knowledge of the land, said historian Bill Gammage, an emeritus professor at Australian National University who studies Australian and Aboriginal ...
The Conversation

‘A defiant stand’: histories of Australia’s frontier wars are revealing their true complexity, but there’s more to be done

Professor of Australian and Aboriginal History, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW Sydney Historian Stephen Gapps’ latest book, Uprising ...
Science Daily

29,000 years of Aboriginal history

The known timeline of the Aboriginal occupation of South Australia's Riverland region has been vastly extended by new research. Radiocarbon dating of shell middens - remnants of meals eaten long ago - ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The deep Indigenous history of Australia deserves to be up in lights

Australia is described as the lucky country. A simple internet search will tell you it is celebrated by those near and far for its beautiful scenery, its beaches, animals, laid-back culture, climate ...
Hyperallergic

Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia’s Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a ...
The New York Times

He Wants to Save the Present With the Indigenous Past

Bruce Pascoe’s book “Dark Emu” sparked a reconsideration of Australian history. Now he hopes to use his writing to revive Aboriginal community. By Damien Cave WALLAGARAUGH, Australia — Bruce Pascoe ...

Boxing Day Test more than just cricket for descendant of Australia's First XI Aboriginal team

They travelled on horse and cart and were smuggled on a boat for three months to England, the story of the First XI ...
Salon

How food reveals the suppressed history of Chinese and Aboriginal Australian kinship

Go to Australia, but set your sights North. Keep going past the city lights, past the oddly common giant fruit statuary on the side of the road, keep going until it’s so red around you that it will ...
The Conversation

Friday essay: the ‘great Australian silence’ 50 years on

Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Public History, University of Technology Sydney It’s 50 years since the anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner gave the 1968 Boyer Lectures — a watershed moment for ...