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archaeoamanda.bsky.social
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
March 3, 2026 at 4:12 AM
jamesahurst.bsky.social
#AustralianArchaeology
December 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
caa-australasia.bsky.social
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
Shopping in Colonial Parramatta | Elizabeth West | CAAA2025
YouTube video by CAA Australasia
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October 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
archaeoamanda.bsky.social
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
September 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
archaeoamanda.bsky.social
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
September 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
jamesahurst.bsky.social
#IndigenousAustralia #AboriginalAustralia #Australianprehistory #archaeology #deephistory #Australianarchaeology #BillyGriffiths
September 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
jamesahurst.bsky.social
Balancing the wishes of Indigenous traditional owners with the desire for further archaeological investigation is always a fraught process. #archaeology #AustralianArchaeology #BillyGriffiths #culturalheritage
July 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
nathumbehav.nature.com
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...
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...
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June 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
bronfredericks.bsky.social
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
May 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
biarvecc.bsky.social
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
May 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
profamyroberts.bsky.social
It was fantastic to be part of this research with Jagera Daran led by Kate Greenwood. #australianarchaeology #flinders
April 28, 2025 at 1:23 AM
fionahook.bsky.social
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
April 19, 2025 at 3:48 AM
fionahook.bsky.social
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
April 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
jamesahurst.bsky.social
Is there a union presence in #AustralianArchaeology ?
archhelmer.bsky.social Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · Apr 14
Just finished writing the last of the materials I am bring to the Unionizing American Archaeology booth at the SAA 🏺 CRM Expo in Denver next week! I'm so excited for there to be a union presence at the expo this year!!
April 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
fionahook.bsky.social
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
April 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
fionahook.bsky.social
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
April 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
fionahook.bsky.social
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
April 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
jamesahurst.bsky.social
Burial of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady can continue, court rules
#AustralianArchaeology #MungoMan
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.
www.sbs.com.au
March 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
fionahook.bsky.social
New article on rock art in the Kimberley #australianarchaeology #rockart #kimberley #westenaustralia
austarchj.bsky.social Australian Archaeology @austarchj.bsky.social · Feb 19
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....
March 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
fotc.au
Each year we find headstones in the Toowong Cemetery Archaeology Dig.

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

#australianarchaeology
January 29, 2025 at 5:25 AM
swyattspratt.bsky.social
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 🏺🧵
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...
doi.org
January 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
archaeomatty.bsky.social
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
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.
www.livescience.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
fionahook.bsky.social
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...
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...
doi.org
January 8, 2025 at 2:07 AM
fionahook.bsky.social
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
December 16, 2024 at 8:03 AM
seanulm.bsky.social
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
If based in Australia, what state or territory are you based in?
December 7, 2024 at 9:42 PM