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 ...

Hidden on the edge of a cliff in Australia's Blue Mountains, tucked away in the woods, a wallaby has been painstakingly carved into rock. It’s ancient, estimated to be at least 7,000 years old, and ...

As we approach the dreaded date of January 26, a pervasive question is floating around among the people in my social circle. Though phrased in different ways, most people seem to be wondering, “What ...

Historic hair samples collected from Aboriginal people show that following an initial migration 50,000 years ago, populations spread rapidly around the east and west coasts of Australia. Our research, ...

What killed the Tasmanian Aborigines? When British colonists arrived in 1803, the island’s indigenous people numbered a few thousand. Thirty years later, about 100 remained. Most historians blame ...

Stephen Gapps is an Historian with Artefact Heritage Services and a member of The Greens. Lynda-June Coe is a current member of the Greens NSW. Note of warning: This article refers to deceased ...

Since 1977 the journal Aboriginal History has pioneered interdisciplinary historical studies of Australian Aboriginal people’s and Torres Strait Islander’s interactions with non-Indigenous peoples. It ...

Voices of our Elders includes the stories of more than 20 Indigenous people from around the Limestone Coast. Author Charlotte Lovett was approached to collate the stories, after working on ...

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 ...

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 ...