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Rare bone tool artefact revealed Discovery on the Murray gives insight into ancient Australia. Archaeologists Duncan Wright, Christopher Wilson, Roger Luebbers and Kelly Wiltshire (L-R) on the Murrawong excavation in 2008. Credit: Flinders University Analysis of a crafted bone point unearthed on Ngarrindjeri country in South Australia is shedding new light on the behaviour and tool use of First Nations Australians, according to a new paper published in the journal Australian Archaeology. (a) The Murrawong bone point; (b) superior view; (c) inferior view; and (d) distal edge featuring use-rel...

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Ancient Boomerangs: Flying Multi-Tools For Aboriginal people in Australia the boomerang represents the enduring strength of their culture. A National Museum's of Australia a (NMA) article explains that with more than 250 different language groups there were as many boomerang-making styles across the continent. The oldest Australian boomerangs ever discovered have been dated to about 20,000 years ago and at the most essential cultural levels, boomerangs feature in Aboriginal creation mythology in which mountains, rocks and rivers were formed after ancient ancestors threw boomerangs and spea...

Al Jazeera Birdbrains Rehash Old News to Demonize Israel Al Jazeera Birdbrains Rehash Old News to Demonize Israel  shares Al Jazeera aka Al Jizz have a story about the Gazan quail industry, which predictably blames Israel at every turn. By Duncan Wright – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 Some people here are finding creative new ways to earn a living in the face of high unemployment that is destroying the present and future of many. Ibrahim Abu Odeh, 34, from the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, is one of them. Refusing to lose hope even as unemployment reached nearly 50 percent, he...