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    The Impact of Contact: Isotope Geochemistry Sheds Light on the Lives of Indigenous Australians Living on the Colonial Frontier in Late 19th Century Queensland

    Here, we report the first attempt to use isotope geochemistry to improve understanding of the experiences of Indigenous Australians living on the colonial frontier in late 19th century CE Australia. In the stu...

    Shaun Adams, Mark Collard, David McGahan, Richard Martin, Susan Phillips… in Archaeologies (2023)

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    Ula Thirra: a case study in the geomagnetic detection of combustion features in Channel Country of far south-western Queensland

    The use of fire plays a vital role in studies involving human adaptation and evolution as well as landscape and environmental management, especially when it can answer questions about people’s movement across ...

    Kelsey M. Lowe, Doug Williams, Nathan Wright… in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2023)

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    Isotopic analyses of prehistoric human remains from the Flinders Group, Queensland, Australia, support an association between burial practices and status

    Isotopic analyses of human remains have the potential to alter our understanding of prehistoric lifeways and migration in Australia, but very few such analyses have been conducted in the country to date. Here,...

    Shaun Adams, Michael C. Westaway… in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2021)

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    A Community Bioarchaeology Project in the Flinders Group, Queensland, Australia

    Bioarchaeological research in Australia has lagged behind that in other regions due to understandable concerns arising from the disregard of Indigenous Australians rights over their ancestors’ remains. To impr...

    Shaun Adams, Mark Collard, Doug Williams, Clarence Flinders, Sally Wasef… in Archaeologies (2020)

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    First Australians: Origins

    Michael C. Westaway, David Lambert in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (2020)

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    Last appearance of Homo erectus at Ngandong, Java, 117,000–108,000 years ago

    Homo erectus is the founding early hominin species of Island Southeast Asia, and reached Java (Indonesia) more than 1.5 million years ago1,2. Twelve H. erectus calvaria (skull caps) and two tibiae (lower leg bone...

    Yan Rizal, Kira E. Westaway, Yahdi Zaim, Gerrit D. van den Bergh… in Nature (2020)

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    The first hominin fleet

    New research suggests that groups of ~130 modern humans at minimum undertook planned expeditions to colonise Sahul via a northern route. However, the necessity of more evidence to test this model reflects a ne...

    Michael C. Westaway in Nature Ecology & Evolution (2019)

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    A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

    The population history of Aboriginal Australians remains largely uncharacterized. Here we generate high-coverage genomes for 83 Aboriginal Australians (speakers of Pama–Nyungan languages) and 25 Papuans from t...

    Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Michael C. Westaway, Craig Muller, Vitor C. Sousa… in Nature (2016)

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    Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia

    Whole-genome sequencing of individuals from 125 populations provides insight into patterns of genetic diversity, natural selection and human demographic history during the peopling of Eurasia and finds evidenc...

    Luca Pagani, Daniel John Lawson, Evelyn Jagoda, Alexander Mörseburg… in Nature (2016)

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    First Australians: Origins

    Michael C. Westaway, David Lambert in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (2014)