Australian Archaeology
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Australian Archaeology is the flagship journal of the Australian Archaeological Association Inc. published since 1974. Follow us for authoritative research in Australian archaeology.
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New in Australian Archaeology: pXRF sourcing of stone artefacts from Kings Table & Dargan shelters shows dynamic movement and changing pathways across the Blue Mountains since the LGM. 🔓🔽
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October 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
New in Australian Archaeology: pXRF sourcing of stone artefacts from Kings Table & Dargan shelters shows dynamic movement and changing pathways across the Blue Mountains since the LGM. 🔓🔽
Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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How do you learn a boomerang’s life story? Forensic analysis + Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung knowledge reveal manufacture, use, repair and cultural significance of a unique wangim.
Read in The Conversation: theconversation.com/how-forensic...
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Read in The Conversation: theconversation.com/how-forensic...
Original Article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
How do you learn a boomerang’s life story? Forensic analysis + Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung knowledge reveal manufacture, use, repair and cultural significance of a unique wangim.
Read in The Conversation: theconversation.com/how-forensic...
Original Article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Read in The Conversation: theconversation.com/how-forensic...
Original Article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A prestige, multifunctional tool: New paper combines cultural knowledge with functional analysis to trace how a Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung wangim (boomerang) was made, used, and cared for. 🔓⬇️
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October 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
A prestige, multifunctional tool: New paper combines cultural knowledge with functional analysis to trace how a Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung wangim (boomerang) was made, used, and cared for. 🔓⬇️
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A Record in Bone “contributes to the broader Australian archaeological discipline and should be in the library of any general archaeologist, zooarchaeologist, or cultural heritage practitioner”. Carly Monks reviews ‘A Record in Bone’ by Michelle Langley. 🔽
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October 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
A Record in Bone “contributes to the broader Australian archaeological discipline and should be in the library of any general archaeologist, zooarchaeologist, or cultural heritage practitioner”. Carly Monks reviews ‘A Record in Bone’ by Michelle Langley. 🔽
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Australian Archaeology Volume 91 Issue 2 is now complete and available online. All original articles are open access! 🔑⬇️
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September 21, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Australian Archaeology Volume 91 Issue 2 is now complete and available online. All original articles are open access! 🔑⬇️
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New research! Excavations at Giligilina, on Papua New Guinea’s south coast, uncover Lapita pottery and shed new light on Late Lapita seafaring networks across Oceania, Torres Strait and the Australian coast.🔓
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September 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
New research! Excavations at Giligilina, on Papua New Guinea’s south coast, uncover Lapita pottery and shed new light on Late Lapita seafaring networks across Oceania, Torres Strait and the Australian coast.🔓
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New research by Shaye Fraser and colleagues shows nearly 60% of Registered Aboriginal Places on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country are associated with volcanic stony rises—landforms now under threat from urban growth. 🔓
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September 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
New research by Shaye Fraser and colleagues shows nearly 60% of Registered Aboriginal Places on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country are associated with volcanic stony rises—landforms now under threat from urban growth. 🔓
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Georgia Stannard reviews Teaching Ancient Australia by Duncan Wright and Dave Johnston as “accurate, accessible, and built on community-based case studies.”
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September 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Georgia Stannard reviews Teaching Ancient Australia by Duncan Wright and Dave Johnston as “accurate, accessible, and built on community-based case studies.”
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How did marine shells end up 200 km inland? Walufeni Cave reveals a 3,250-year-old story of trade, migration and cultural connection across Papua New Guinea’s Great Papuan Plateau.🔓⤵️
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August 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
How did marine shells end up 200 km inland? Walufeni Cave reveals a 3,250-year-old story of trade, migration and cultural connection across Papua New Guinea’s Great Papuan Plateau.🔓⤵️
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Check out new article by Jamie Rachcoff, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation and colleagues, who are using LiDAR to identify earth rings on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country.
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August 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Check out new article by Jamie Rachcoff, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation and colleagues, who are using LiDAR to identify earth rings on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country.
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New article by Madeleine Kelly and colleagues document rare ‘finger flutings’—marks made when people run their fingers along soft cave walls and ceilings—in New Guinea II Cave, GunaiKurnai Country, Gippsland. 🔑🔓⬇️
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July 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
New article by Madeleine Kelly and colleagues document rare ‘finger flutings’—marks made when people run their fingers along soft cave walls and ceilings—in New Guinea II Cave, GunaiKurnai Country, Gippsland. 🔑🔓⬇️
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It’s time to give you (and us) a little pat on the back:
Australian Archaeology has DOUBLED our downloads since last year. Thank you to everyone who supports the journal and archaeological research in Australia. 🎉🎈🎊
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Australian Archaeology has DOUBLED our downloads since last year. Thank you to everyone who supports the journal and archaeological research in Australia. 🎉🎈🎊
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May 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
It’s time to give you (and us) a little pat on the back:
Australian Archaeology has DOUBLED our downloads since last year. Thank you to everyone who supports the journal and archaeological research in Australia. 🎉🎈🎊
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Australian Archaeology has DOUBLED our downloads since last year. Thank you to everyone who supports the journal and archaeological research in Australia. 🎉🎈🎊
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‘In a unique and terrible way, Stanner’s cautions are still relevant and his rhetoric sharp.’
Cate Sexton and Claire Smith review an anthology of W.E.H. Stanner’s writings on Australian Aboriginal culture and societies more than 50 years after they were written.🔽
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Cate Sexton and Claire Smith review an anthology of W.E.H. Stanner’s writings on Australian Aboriginal culture and societies more than 50 years after they were written.🔽
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April 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
‘In a unique and terrible way, Stanner’s cautions are still relevant and his rhetoric sharp.’
Cate Sexton and Claire Smith review an anthology of W.E.H. Stanner’s writings on Australian Aboriginal culture and societies more than 50 years after they were written.🔽
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cate Sexton and Claire Smith review an anthology of W.E.H. Stanner’s writings on Australian Aboriginal culture and societies more than 50 years after they were written.🔽
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New article by Bruno David and colleagues advocates for the importance of identifying short-term and momentary events in the archaeological record through case studies from around Australia. 🔑🔓🔽
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April 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
New article by Bruno David and colleagues advocates for the importance of identifying short-term and momentary events in the archaeological record through case studies from around Australia. 🔑🔓🔽
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‘This Terra Australis volume will be of great interest to anyone working in Pacific anthropology, archaeology and museum studies.’ Chris Urwin reviews Forty Years in the South Seas, a festschrift in honour of Glenn Summerhayes. 🔽
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March 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
‘This Terra Australis volume will be of great interest to anyone working in Pacific anthropology, archaeology and museum studies.’ Chris Urwin reviews Forty Years in the South Seas, a festschrift in honour of Glenn Summerhayes. 🔽
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“...the culmination of decades of research that has reshaped our understanding of First Nations’ histories.”
Stephanie Mawson reviews Innovation: Knowledge and Ingenuity by Ian McNiven and Lynette Russell. 🔽
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Stephanie Mawson reviews Innovation: Knowledge and Ingenuity by Ian McNiven and Lynette Russell. 🔽
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March 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
“...the culmination of decades of research that has reshaped our understanding of First Nations’ histories.”
Stephanie Mawson reviews Innovation: Knowledge and Ingenuity by Ian McNiven and Lynette Russell. 🔽
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Stephanie Mawson reviews Innovation: Knowledge and Ingenuity by Ian McNiven and Lynette Russell. 🔽
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New article by Motta and colleagues introduces a new Mid-to-Late Holocene rock art style - Linear Naturalistic Figures - from the Kimberly, suggesting a change in how people perceive their landscape and interpreted it through art. 🔓🔑🔽
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February 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
New article by Motta and colleagues introduces a new Mid-to-Late Holocene rock art style - Linear Naturalistic Figures - from the Kimberly, suggesting a change in how people perceive their landscape and interpreted it through art. 🔓🔑🔽
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New excavation of ‘rings of mystery’ in Victoria reveals rich Aboriginal history. Check out The Conversation piece and in-depth article from Australian Archaeology.
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January 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
New excavation of ‘rings of mystery’ in Victoria reveals rich Aboriginal history. Check out The Conversation piece and in-depth article from Australian Archaeology.
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Incredible new research by Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation and colleagues braids together the study of a cultural landscape and results from the only earth ring excavated in Australia! 🔓🔑🔽
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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January 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Incredible new research by Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation and colleagues braids together the study of a cultural landscape and results from the only earth ring excavated in Australia! 🔓🔑🔽
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Check out new paper by Genevieve Bell and colleagues that explores Australian telegraphy through historical evidence, cybernetics and industrial archaeology! 🔐🔑🔽
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January 6, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Check out new paper by Genevieve Bell and colleagues that explores Australian telegraphy through historical evidence, cybernetics and industrial archaeology! 🔐🔑🔽
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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