Distinguished Professor of Archaeology at James Cook University & Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories & Futures
Cairns, Australia
Joined April 2012
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Aboriginal people made pottery and sailed to distant offshore islands thousands of years before Europeans arrived theconversation.com/aborigin… via @ConversationEDU
After nearly 13 years on Twitter/X, I'm retiring from it today and moving full-time over to @bluesky.
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It's been fun.
An amazing 590 respondents already to the Australian Archaeology in Profile 2025: A Survey of Working Archaeologists!
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An amazing 569 respondents already to the Australian Archaeology in Profile 2025: A Survey of Working Archaeologists!
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New excavation of ‘rings of mystery’ in Victoria reveals rich Aboriginal history theconversation.com/new-exca… via @ConversationEDU
Full text of the article by @carolinedigs and colleagues published in @AustArchJ available at: doi.org/10.1080/03122417.202…
An amazing 500 respondents already to the Australian Archaeology in Profile 2025: A Survey of Working Archaeologists!
More than 1/3 of respondents so far indicate that they have a PhD or MPhil.
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Already 460 respondents to our Australian Archaeology in Profile 2025: A Survey of Working Archaeologists!
1/3 indicate that they worked for more than 1 employer in 2024.
QLD, SA & ACT are still poorly represented.
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Celebrate truth, knowledge and cultures with Always Was, Always Will Be this 19-26 January 2025 on @NITV and @SBS #TheFirstInventors
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Already 415 respondents to our Australian Archaeology in Profile 2025: A Survey of Working Archaeologists!
But maritime archaeology and classical archaeology are very poorly represented!
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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!
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Congratulations @alidoostsalimi! Wonderful to see this paper out! @ciehfcoe #AustralianArchaeology
I am very happy to share my PhD student @alidoostsalimi ‘s first PhD publication! 🐚🐚🎉🎉
Great Barrier Reef Conomurex shells as SST and seasonal foraging archives
#sclerochronology
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@SciMelb @SeanUlm @ciehfcoe @cabahCoE
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Thank-you @SING_Australia for a thought-provoking panel to kick-off the @AustArchaeology 2024 conference!
What a wonderful start to #AAA45 in #Gimuy we appreciate you inviting #SINGAustralia to open with an #Indigenous #Genomics panel and thank you @ciehf for sponsoring our session
Another great @ciehfcoe postdocjob opportunity, this time at the UWA Node:
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Australian Archaeology in Profile 2025: A Survey of Working Archaeologists
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So glad to see this work out! Lead by the fabulous @FionaHook:
Late Pleistocene scaphopod beads from Boodie Cave and deep time traditions of personal ornamentation in northwest Australia
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New article by Michael Kneppers and colleagues compares methods of mollusc quantification from two midden sites on the northern Great Barrier Reef island group of Jiigurru (the Lizard Island Group). 🔓⬇️
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Many thanks to @DawulWuru for hosting @ciehfcoe on beautiful Yirrganydji Country at Jakal/Palm Cove this week!
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Another important contribution led by @LynleyWallis documenting and protecting the Indigenous cultural heritage of Cape York Peninsula.
New @QldArchResearch #OpenAccess article – A preliminary study of culturally modified sugarbag trees in the Laura Sandstone Basin, Cape York Peninsula by @LynleyWallis, Heather Burke, Mia Dardengo, Cat Morgan, Noelene Cole et al.
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ALT Photographs showing the status of sugarbag culturally modified trees (CMTs)
Bereline Loogatha from MIArt and I talk about the extraordinary stone-walled intertidal fishtraps of the Wellesley Island Region on @ABCaustralia Radio National PM program.
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ALT Catfish Story, Bentinck Island, Kaiadilt Country