Members of the Australian delegation to Paris, led by Ngarda-Ngarli and MAC, describe why the Murujuga Cultural Landscape listing is so important theconversation.com/we-were-part...

Got some weekend reading for you! www.crarm.uwa.edu.au/post/rocks-v...

Happy #IWD2025 from the Art Tarts and all our esteemed colleagues

Fabulous to have Martu and Ngada Ngarli, industry partners, researchers and collaborators together in Perth this week for our annual Desert to the Sea ARC LP research forum. Great to talk about what we have achieved already, working together. Exciting times planned for this year on country!

Very helpful.. 😂

Delighted that this paper has arrived just in time for the Festive Season!! A pioneering analysis the Pilbara fat-tailed macropod. Pilbara artists depicted this motif in very similar ways, with posture and gait accounting for most stylistic differences.

Graduation night is always more special when there is an amazing crop of new archaeologists- and many of the discipline group are there to celebrate 🎉 🎊

Great to be part of the UWA contingent who travelled to Gimuy to take part in #AAA47. Fabulous sessions on Shared narratives and proud to have our Dating Project team present work done in collaboration with Murujuga. Happy the Big and small #s made a return to the schedule, with many worthy winners!

Diego Turollo- talking about his PhD research on hydrological catchments around Murujuga #AAA47

Eva Lowe talking about their Honours research on pollen in the tufa cores around Murujuga’s water holes at #AAA47

Caroline Mather - the Tufa Queen - now talking about fresh water across the archipelago at Murujuga #AAA47

After lunch- and now Mick O’Leary talking about sea faring competencies and inter island travel in The Dating Murujuga’s Dreaming session #AAA47

Now Ben Mullins- talking about the MRAMP results and the complexities of natural vs anthropogenic effects on the rock at at Murujuga #AAA47

Now - John Fairweather describing his work with machine learning to explore the distribution of rock varnish at the landscape scale #AAA47

Ying-Li Wu now talking about her characterisation of the microbiology of the varnish at Murujuga #AAA47

Ishara Pathirage now is presenting on her geology PhD research in Rosemary Island gabbros

Now Katy Evans from Curtin and the MRAMP now talking about geology of Murujuga #AAA47

The Dating Murujuga’s Dreaming session starts with Luke Gligainic describing how we can date rock through looking at surface exposure

Now Dave Johnson wrapping up the session- embracing the small and big wins and celebrating the gains for Indigenous archaeology over multiple decades

Now Aunty/Babani Robyne Brancroft narrates her archaeological journey/ acknowledging Isobel McBryde as well as her matrilineal line

Now Annie Ross- looking back - to look forward- reflections on a long and illustrious career collaborating with Indigenous people #AAA47

Day 3 Plenary just starting at #AAA47 Chaired by Dave Johnson

Plenary Speaker John Schofield at #AAACairns with some suggested solutions for the wicked problems related to climate change

#AAA47 Day 2 about to kick off- with Steve Brown introducing our Plenary Speaker John Schofield

The Murujuga Dating Project team- aggregating for lunch- almost all here now!

#AAA47 Plenary starting now from the SING Indigenous Genomics panel

#AAA47 is about to start— the WA clan is gathering!

The Society for American Archaeology’s open letter to Netflix was published on November 30, 2022. The first draft was written by myself and Flint Dibble at the request of SAA president Dan Sandweiss. It’s worth reading again carefully. You’re welcome. documents.saa.org/container/do...

My conference prep procrastination knows no bounds www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

This wonderful project by the Martuwarra team has been rewarded with a WA Heritage Council Award for Interpretation! Well done all!

Amazing research to demonstrate how the first Australians began to modify the environment soon as they moved into new landscapes