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Australian Aboriginal spears taken by James Cook to be repatriated

02 Mar 2023

Four Australian Aboriginal spears – cared for by Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology – are to be repatriated after Trinity College...

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1904 painting "Attack on New Ulm" by Anton Gag

̽»¨Ö±²¥fall and rise of Native North America

26 Sep 2016

̽»¨Ö±²¥story of Native North America – from its vast contribution to world culture, to the often taboo social problems of drinking, gambling and...

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Aubrey Lynch, elder from the Wongatha Aboriginal language group, who participated in the study.

Unprecedented study of Aboriginal Australians points to one shared Out of Africa migration for modern humans

21 Sep 2016

̽»¨Ö±²¥first significant investigation into the genomics of Aboriginal Australians has uncovered several major findings about early human populations...

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Joyfully I Saw Ten Caribou

Modern art’s missing chapter

25 Feb 2015

̽»¨Ö±²¥artworks of black and indigenous peoples – a missing chapter in the history of modern art – is brought into sharp focus in a ‘revelatory’...

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Thermometer

Fevered imaginations

29 Jan 2014

New study finds links between thyroid hormones and body temperature, shedding new light on changes that occur during fevers, and euphoric feelings...

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