Aboriginal articles
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Chris Hemsworth returns to Aboriginal land he grew up in
Hemsworth took photos with the community and shared some memories of his childhood.
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Aboriginal people made pottery, sailed to distant islands thousands of years before Europeans arrived
Pottery was largely unknown in Australia before the recent past, despite well-known pottery traditions in nearby Papua New Guinea and the islands of the western Pacific. The absence of ancient Indigenous pottery in Australia has long puzzled researchers.
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Great Barrier Reef discovery overturns belief Aboriginal Australians did not make pottery, archaeologists say
Paper dates 82 pottery pieces found in single dig site at between 3,000 and 2,000 years oldFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastGroundbreaking archaeological research may have upended the longstanding belief that Aboriginal Australians did not make pottery.A paper published in the Quaternary Science Reviews on Wednesday details the finding of 82 pottery pieces from a single dig site on a Great Barrier Reef...