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The fascination Homo sapiens have had and continue to have with the cosmos is evidenced the world over and across civilisations through space and time. From a circa 2,500 BCE stone arrangement on the Salisbury Plains in England to the painted cave walls and ceilings of celestial and spiritual beings connecting people, land, and sky found throughout Aboriginal Australian cave art our obsession with the cosmos has spanned tens of millennia.
Increasingly, heritage professionals in Australia are integrating both LiDAR and photogrammetry—using technology not to replace traditional archaeology, but to enhance its depth, accuracy, and reach.
Rather than relying solely on traditional methods, there is increasing recognition of the value of non-invasive technologies that can provide depth, context, and clarity simultaneously.
Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu is in the news again, with the publication of a new book critiquing Pascoe’s arguments. Dark Emu builds on an earlier, less known work by archaeologist Rupert Gerritsen, who argued a number of regions across Australia should be considered centres of Aboriginal agriculture and archaeological research.
Geographic Information Systems have become indispensable to the field of archaeology, fundamentally changing how spatial information is collected, interpreted, and shared.
Channel Country, Queensland is as beautiful as it is vast. From roaming emu, birds of prey, to red sandy plains, and the occasional watering hole. This Country has a history that spans several if not tens of millennia and the archaeological discoveries being made in this special place are redefining Australian archaeology.
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