Research identifies renowned rock art sites
New research has uncovered internationally significant rock art sites in Arnhem Land were far from random and instead “chosen” for the critical vantage points they provided. […]
Archaeologists identify Moluccan boats on NT rock art drawings
Archaeologists at Flinders University have identified rare images of Moluccan vessels from Indonesia’s eastern islands in rock art paintings that may provide the first archaeological evidence […]
Climate change challenge to ancient sites
From ancient sites in Eastern Europe and North America to the Philippines, Australia’s oldest Indigenous rock art and “drowning islands” in the Pacific, climate change is […]
When rock art meets machine learning
Rock art of human figures created over thousands of years in Arnhem Land has been put through a transformative machine learning study to analyse style changes […]
Donors fuel new generation of novel research
Deciphering the cause and cure for chronic, unidentifiable pelvic pain – a condition believed to affect one in every 10 people – may be a step […]
Flinders leads water security study on remote island
For the 1600 Indigenous residents who live in Milingimbi, a remote island off the coast of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, drinking water is a scarce and precious resource.
Arnhem Land archaeology looks out to sea
On the coast of Arnhem Land, in the hills above Anuru Bay, an extraordinary record of Indigenous rock art shows a cavalcade of sea-going vessels, from European 19th century square-riggers and Indonesian fishing boats through to merchant ships of the Second World War.