Caroline Spry

Archaeology as gulindji-bagruk (people), liwik (Ancestors) and biik (Country): a view from Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country, southeastern Australia Published in Australian Archaeology (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Our new comment’s out! Archaeology as gulindji-bagruk (people), liwik (Ancestors) and biik (Country): a view from Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country, SE Australia. It’s part of a Forum in the @austarchj.bsky.social journal exploring Voice, Indigenous peoples and archaeology.

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How forensic analysis and traditional knowledge reveal the story of a unique boomerang Grip marks, blood and fire damage hint at the fascinating history of a non-returning boomerang.

Fascinating new research - using traditional knowledge, archaeology and collections to uncover new (old) Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung stories from this wangim (boomerang)!

What a great example of Indigenous-driven artefact research by @carolinedigs.bsky.social et al

theconversation.com/how-forensic...

How forensic analysis and traditional knowledge reveal the story of a unique boomerang Grip marks, blood and fire damage hint at the fascinating history of a non-returning boomerang.

Our new study of an Australian boomerang 🪃 is out! ‘How forensic analysis & traditional knowledge reveal the story of a unique boomerang’ in The Conversation: theconversation.com/how-forensic...

And our in-depth research article in ‘Australian Archaeology’: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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How forensic analysis and traditional knowledge reveal the story of a unique boomerang Grip marks, blood and fire damage hint at the fascinating history of a non-returning boomerang.

Wonderful new work by @carolinedigs.bsky.social and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country on non-returning wangim (boomerangs)

theconversation.com/how-forensic...

And read the full article #openaccess in @austarchj.bsky.social:

doi.org/10.1080/0312...

A photograph of four clay pendants of a trowel, an amphora, a bivalve shell half, and a colour scale bar, each attached to loops of black cord

Happy National Archaeology Week!

This year's craft in celebration of Archaeology Week is little clay pendants - the scale bar is 4cm

#2025NAW #archaeology #craft

Eighty Years On: World War II Maritime Heritage in Australasia Celebrate National Archaeology Week with an online seminar commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, with a focus on ships and submarines.

📣 Join us on 24 May for this online event, "Eighty Years On: World War II Maritime Heritage in Australasia", part of National Archaeology Week and featuring speakers from @seamuseum.bsky.social @flindersmap.bsky.social #WAMuseum #UWA & Kyoto Uni

#NAW2025

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Bake It! Make It! — National Archaeology Week Bake or make a creation inspired by archaeology! Knit a scale bar, bake artefact biscuits, model a monument, the only limit is your imagination.

Get crafting and cooking for National Archaeology Week! The Bake It! Make It! competition is back on. The prize is a fabulous swag of archaeology books! #NAW2025 🏺

Picture of an astronaut in a space suit floating against a deep blue background with a trowel beside them and the text: 'Space archaeology. 25 years in 2025'

National Archaeology Week kicks off today in Australia! As 2025 is also the 25th anniversary of space archaeology as a discipline, I'm going to post a thread of 11 talks by space archaeologists so you can see what it's all about. 🧪🏺 #SpaceArchaeology

For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

🚨 Here is the line up for the Victorian Archaeology Colloquium, being held on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country in Melbourne, Australia this Friday 7th February! Online registration is still available via events.humanitix.com/victorian-ar...

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New excavation of ‘rings of mystery’ in Victoria reveals rich Aboriginal history Archaeologists and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people are shedding new light on a series of enigmatic earth rings located in southeastern Australia.

Great to see these results coming from Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung knowledge & archaeological investigations ...

New excavation of ‘rings of mystery’ in Victoria reveals rich Aboriginal history theconversation.com/new-excavati...

by @carolinedigs.bsky.social et al in @austarchj.bsky.social

New excavation of ‘rings of mystery’ in Victoria reveals rich Aboriginal history Archaeologists and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people are shedding new light on a series of enigmatic earth rings located in southeastern Australia.

New excavation of ‘rings of mystery’ in Victoria reveals rich Aboriginal history theconversation.com/new-excavati...

Full text of the article by @carolinedigs.bsky.social and colleagues published in @austarchj.bsky.social available at: doi.org/10.1080/0312...

New excavation of ‘rings of mystery’ in Victoria reveals rich Aboriginal history Archaeologists and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people are shedding new light on a series of enigmatic earth rings located in southeastern Australia.

New excavation of ‘rings of mystery’ in Victoria reveals rich Aboriginal history. Research by @carolinedigs.bsky.social
theconversation.com/new-excavati...

New excavation of ‘rings of mystery’ in Victoria reveals rich Aboriginal history Archaeologists and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people are shedding new light on a series of enigmatic earth rings located in southeastern Australia.

Our new study on Aboriginal earth rings in Australia’s out! ‘New excavation of rings of mystery in Victoria reveals rich Aboriginal history’ in The Conversation: theconversation.com/new-excavati...

And our in-depth article in Australian Archaeology: doi.org/10.1080/0312...

#archaeology #heritage 🏺

Tree marked with four X-marks made with an axe, damaged by chainsaw.

NEW Examination of trees in northern Europe threatened by deforestation finds rare examples of those engraved by the Sámi, the Indigenous people of Arctic Europe, highlighting the cultural importance of preventing deforestation in Fennoscandia.

#AntiquityThread 1/15 🧵

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#Real-Archaeology A collective of content creators producing fact-based mini-documentaries on archaeology. We educate the public on ancient history using peer-reviewed sources. Join our online event

In a bit less than 48 hours, our #RealArchaeology event starts! A weekend filled with phenomenal archaeology found on podcasts, YouTube, TikToks, the radio, and blogs

We will fill the internet with fact-based entertainment. Share widely!

Full details here: www.real-archaeology.com

Full session details: Session 856, Friday 30th August, 2pm, Room 42=CU005-BAS-Aula 3. Our paper is 3pm 😊

#EAA2024 (2/2)

If you’re at #EAA2024 in Rome, join the @blacktrowel.bsky.social session: So Falls the World! Archaeology & Heritage against Empire(s). Our paper is on the British Empire, Aboriginal Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people & excavation of a large earth ring in Australia. Fri 2pm👇

@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social

Archaeologists are great at digging up stuff & studying the past. But we’re not so great at sharing our work in a way that’s understandable, accessible & relevant to all. In my new article, I explore why this is & how we can improve

PS @flintdibble.bsky.social rocks

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‘Joyful madness’: ANU scientist wins global prize for ‘dancing his PhD’ about kangaroos Four-minute video features drag queens, twerking, ballerinas, a classical Indian dancer and a bunch of friends from Canberra

If you haven’t had the pleasure of watching this video of Weliton Menario Costa dance his PhD on kangaroos, do yourself a favour and check it out. Congrats on the new EP too 😊

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Full article (including video) here:

Who else is going to #CAA2024 in Auckland, NZ? Looking forward to presenting with my Wurundjeri colleagues in this session on the legacy of Harold Dibble in stone artefact archaeology in Australasia and beyond.

2024.caaconference.org

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Indigenous pyrodiversity promotes plant diversity 🌏🧪
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The program for the Victorian Archaeology Colloquium 2024 is here! Join us online or in person, Friday 2nd February to hear about the archaeology and cultural heritage of Victoria, SE Australia.

Register here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/victorian-...

#archaeology #heritage #2024VAC

Thank you!

Honestly I can’t seem to get enough of indigenous knowledge in archaeology. These voices have been ignored or undervalued for far too long. More please!🏺

Thanks Karen! It was a privilege to be involved in this project - we really wouldn’t be able to understand these trees properly without the Wiradjuri community’s cultural guidance.

We’ve just published two pieces on ancient burial marker trees in southeastern Australia! We’re lucky to have a record of these trees + burials still.

The Conversation: theconversation.com/carved-trees...

Full journal article (open access):
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#archaeology #heritage #trees

I'm so excited for the Wenner-Gren Workshop on the Socio-Politics of Knowledge Production in Anthropology and Archaeology, which Jess Beck and I are leading next week! Check out our website: www.anthroknowledge.com (videos and more will be posted after the workshop!)

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