RDHP Team Members join celebration of a local deep history stone axe quarry
RDHP Team members Josh Newham and Julie Rickwood attended a ceremony to celebrate the gazettal of the Millpost Stone Axe Quarry as an Aboriginal Place with the New South…
RDHP’s Activities and Initiatives highlighted in latest CASS RAP Newsletter
Indigenous Training Program While doing fieldwork in Broome in February 2019 members of the RDHP Team held the first Indigenous Training Workshop at Nyamba Buru Yaruwu. With the support of the…
Aileen Walsh: Another scholarship, another conference
RDHP PhD student Aileen Marwung Walsh has received a full scholarship for the Professional Certificate in Indigenous Research at the University of Melbourne. The residential commences in July 2019…
New members appointed to the Rediscovering the Deep Human Past Team
The Rediscovering the Deep Human Past Laureate Program (RDHP) Team is now complete with the recent appointment of Dr Mike Jones as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Mike will be starting with us on 1…
White grief, happy friendship: Jane Goodale and emotional anthropological research
Abstract: 'In the 1950s, anthropologist Jane Goodale had bright hopes for her informant Happy Cook, an Aboriginal girl from the Tiwi Islands in North Australia, who she considered constrained by…
Laura Rademaker's new quest to awaken sleeping Indigenous languages
ANU School of History's Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr Laura Rademaker has been featured in the latest edition of Canberra's City News. Dr Rademaker discusses the influence a trip to Chile had…
The elimination of Aboriginal languages and the legacy of colonisation
'2019 is the International Year of Indigenous Languages. But the state of Australia's Indigenous languages is not good. Of the 250 or so languages spoken here when colonisation began, less than half…