WARLPIRI DRAWINGS at the National Museum of Australia - curated by Dr Melinda Hinkson
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WARLPIRI DRAWINGS at the National Museum of Australia - curated by Dr Melinda Hinkson A fabulous exhibition at the the National Museum of Australia has been curated by Dr Melinda Hinkson from SAA. This exhibition was curated for the National Museum of Australia by Dr Melinda Hinkson, Australian…
WARLPIRI DRAWINGS at the National Museum of Australia - curated by Dr Melinda Hinkson
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WARLPIRI DRAWINGS at the National Museum of Australia - curated by Dr Melinda Hinkson A fabulous exhibition at the the National Museum of Australia has been curated by Dr Melinda Hinkson from SAA. This exhibition was curated for the National Museum of Australia by Dr Melinda Hinkson, Australian…
The power of written words: Constructing identity in the early Bunun Christian Church
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Written words in vernacular have deep intimacy with identity and pride among the Bunun indigenous society of Taiwan. The Bunun believe they had a glorious past when they still held the written words and were the original owners of vast tracts of land. However, these invaluable written words were…
CAR Seminar Series: A tale of two caves, or, why was our species so successful at colonising new environments?
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There has been much recent discussion on the nature of 'behavioural modernity': how can it be defined? How can archaeologists recognise it? When, where, how and why did it develop? And is it, in case, a useful concept for us to apply to the archaeological record of Homo sapiens and contemporary…
CAR Seminar Series: How archaeological evidence bites back: scaffolding, critical distance and triangulation
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"In the mid-1950s a profoundly pessimistic discussion of "The Limitation of Inference in Archaeology" appeared in the (British) Archaeologocal Newsletter. The author, field archaeologist M. A. Smith, concluded that it is "a hopeless task" to attempt to attempt to move from one to the other "by…