NEW RESEARCH: Using 3D imaging as a cultural learning resource for Australian Aboriginal communities. A case study from the Wiradjuri people of New South Wales.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#australianarchaeology #Aboriginal #Wiradjuri #archaeology #photogrammetary

#AustralianArchaeology

The next talk from our #digital #archaeology conference is Elizabeth West’s is one for fans of #Australianarchaeology, “Shopping in Colonial Parramatta”. Watch Elizabeth’s talk here: youtu.be/Bm6dye8QvN4

So it’s back to work on site tomorrow morning. I can’t post pics as I’m working with Ancestral remains so enjoy a picture of this stone anvil also used as a grinding taken near Point Bonython on a camping trip. #Australianarchaeology

So I caved and set up an account here. Not expecting anyone to interact however as this place seems very quiet! I’m here for #AboriginalArchaeology #humanosteology #zooarchaeology
#AustralianArchaeology
#archaeology.
Say hi and give me a follow

#IndigenousAustralia #AboriginalAustralia #Australianprehistory #archaeology #deephistory #Australianarchaeology #BillyGriffiths

Balancing the wishes of Indigenous traditional owners with the desire for further archaeological investigation is always a fraught process. #archaeology #AustralianArchaeology #BillyGriffiths #culturalheritage

The earliest evidence of high-elevation ice age occupation in Australia - Nature Human Behaviour This study reports on excavations of hearths and stone artefacts from 20,000-year-old deposits at Dargan Shelter, which at an elevation of 1,073 m is believed to be the oldest occupied high-altitude s...

Dargan Shelter at 1073m elevation in the upper Blue Mountains is believed to be the oldest occupied high-altitude site in Australia (occupation first occurred ~20,000 years ago). @amymosigway.bsky.social @usyd-humanities.bsky.social
#australianarchaeology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW commentary from Pekeri Ruska, ARC IFC, UQ Law, titled The critical need for cultural heritage legislation reform: Reimagining the boundaries of change in Australian Archaeology - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#CulturalHeritage #CulturalHeritageLegislation #AustralianArchaeology #Auspol

National Archaeology Week has started in Australia!!!

Get around the instagram takeovers from our university societies across the country!!

www.instagram.com/nationalarch...

#naw2025
#nationalarchaeologyweek
#australianarchaeology

It was fantastic to be part of this research with Jagera Daran led by Kate Greenwood. #australianarchaeology #flinders

This is what I was doing in the lab this week — working through the MNI counts for chitons as part of my reanalysis of the marine invertebrate assemblage from Haynes Cave. Applying a method that is more accurate.
#archaeomalacology #zooarchaeology #chiton #australianarchaeology #MontebelloIslands

Using archaeological, ethnographic & experimental datasets, we establish a full chaîne opératoire for Melo shell knives—proving manufacture began 46,000 years ago in northern Australia. doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... #zooarchaeology #archaeomalacology #australianarchaeology #experimentalarchaeology

Is there a union presence in #AustralianArchaeology ?

The reduction sequence of a juvenile Melo into a knife followed a set process. The same as technique observed by Tindale in the 1960s in the gulf of Carpentaria. Which is 2,452 km away from Boodie Cave! #archaeomalacology #experimentalarchaeology #australianarchaeology #shelltools

Part of my PhD research looked at shell knives from Boodie Cave, Barrow Island (Hook et al. 2024). We found a 46,000-year tradition of Melo shell knife production—some of the earliest known shell tools made by Homo sapiens.
#archaeomalacology #australianarchaeology #experimentalarchaeology

Been a bit quiet—waiting on TO approval for my final PhD paper. I’ve moved into my own lab in the Peter Veth Arch Lab + kicked off archaeomalacological reanalysis of the late Pleistocene and early Holocene Haynes + Noala Caves, Montebello Islands, 1980s digs

#shellfish #uwa #australianarchaeology

Burial of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady can continue, court rules A legal challenge to the reburial of the oldest human remains found in this country has been dismissed.

Burial of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady can continue, court rules
#AustralianArchaeology #MungoMan

New article on rock art in the Kimberley #australianarchaeology #rockart #kimberley #westenaustralia

Each year we find headstones in the Toowong Cemetery Archaeology Dig.

https://www.fotc.au/headstones/archaeological-digs/

#australianarchaeology

Core Concept: Defining Cores in the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia One of the biggest impediments to the analysis of cores in the archaeology of Indigenous Australia is the slippery use of terminology. This impairs comparative analyses and limits our ability to ex...

For #FlintFriday I'm shameless promoting my paper that was published this week in Lithic Technology: "Core Concept: Defining Cores in the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia". doi.org/10.1080/0197...
#AustralianArchaeology #Archaeology 1/5 🏺🧵

We finally know what 1,400-year-old 'mystery rings' in Australia are Archaeologists and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people are shedding new light on a series of enigmatic earth rings located in southeastern Australia.

New study presents the archaeology of one of Australia's rare earth-rings combined with Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung understanding of these enigmatic places. #australianarchaeology #archaeology

New braided knowledge understandings of an Aboriginal earth ring and biik wurrdha (Jacksons Creek, Sunbury) on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country, southeastern Australia Aboriginal rings are circular, earth (or rock) features that are preserved at increasingly fewer locations across eastern Australia today. While previous studies indicate these rings are sacred loc...

A new study in Australian archaeology combines Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung cultural insights with evidence from Jacksons Creek (biik wurrdha) to explore Aboriginal earth rings, revealing insights into fire, tool use, and movement by Woi-wurrung ancestors. #australianarchaeology

doi.org/10.1080/0312...

My latest paper details how tusk shell beads were strung and tested on a wear machine simulating 10 hours of vigorous wear: 300 RPM, 1.5 agitations/sec, totaling 54,000 agitations—like wearing a necklace during intense activity.

#experimentalarchaeology #archaeomalacology #australianarchaeology

If based in Australia, what state or territory are you based in?

An amazing 244 respondents already to our Australian Archaeology in Profile 2025: A Survey of Working Archaeologists!

BUT only 12 from South Australia and 4 from the ACT!
Where are you?????

Please complete the survey at:

www.surveymonkey.com/r/profiling2...

#AustralianArchaeology

Congratulations @mahsaalidoost.bsky.social! Wonderful to see this paper out! @ciehf.bsky.social #AustralianArchaeology

Great first day at the Australian Archaeological Association 2024 Conference #AAA47. Heaps of awesome talks in the Archaeological Science session @arcas.org.au. Great fun catching up with friends and colleagues and wonderful to be back in Gimuy Cairns too!
#australianarchaeology
#archsci

Front entrance of the AAA conference with a very cool LED display

I’ve made it! Looking forward to an action packed day at the Australian Archaeological Association Conference

#Archaeology #AustralianArchaeology #AAA2024

Prospective staff : Jobs at UWA : IN DEVELOPMENT

Another great @ciehf.bsky.social postdoc job opportunity, this time at the UWA Node:

external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

#AustralianArchaeology

Tomorrow I’ll be presenting my PhD results at the Australian Archaeology Conference in Cairns, showing the consistent harvesting of subtidal sea grass shellfish from 51-36 to 18-6.5 ka at Boodie Cave

#australianarchaeology
#archaeomalacology
#iceage #pleistocene #ancientmaritimity
#zooarchaeology