DHSC Project

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Stone artefacts on the seabed at a submerged freshwater spring confirm a drowned cultural landscape in Murujuga, WA Published today in Quaternary Science Reviews As shown in the @Channel10AU series #FirstInventors @cabahCoE deephistoryofseacountry.com/2023/06/24/sto…

The DHSC team has responded to a recent critique of our project findings in the journal Geoarchaeology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ge…

On Calvert Island, British Columbia, the subtle rock line of an extant clam garden is a reminder of how Indigenous peoples turned the sea into a shellfish garden. bit.ly/4fj1PD9

Fantastic week of diving surveys in Murujuga Sea Country this week 🤿 ☀️ 👌

Annoying the crabs during our submerged landscape survey work in Denmark today #misterkrabs

Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation Rangers took their first ocean dive as part of Open Water Diver qualification. Funding for the training was provided by the Australian Government @arc_gov_au and @Flinders led by @j_mccarthy and the DHSC team deephistoryofseacountry.com/2024/06/20/scu… #SCUBA

DHSC divers are in the field! 🤿 👌

We’re back diving in Murujuga! Stay tuned for more updates here and on our blog: deephistoryofseacountry.com 🤿 👌

A reflective piece by DHSC’s @jon_benj on how submerged landscape archaeology is now part of the fabric of the wider discipline of Australian Archaeology.

Dr @ChelsWiseman was one of the scientific divers to discover the first submerged artefacts in Murujuga. Here she writes a reflective piece for AA @AustArchJ 50 Voices.

Crossing the Nullarbor again ahead of this year's diving and survey fieldwork in WA, early starts and long roads

Heading West! 🤿

A team of scientists and Alaska Native community members explore the continental shelf west of Prince of Wales Island in southeast Alaska, seeking submerged caves and rock shelters that would have been used by early inhabitants. alaskapublic.org/2024/04/26/arc…

If you are at #SAA2024NOLA and would like to know more about our work in underwater archaeology in Australia we are presenting this morning at 11:30AM in Room Balcony N

Aboriginal people made pottery and sailed to distant offshore islands thousands of years before Europeans arrived theconversation.com/aboriginal-peo… via @ConversationEDU

A Stone Age megastructure, preserved in the Western Baltic Sea, offers unique insights into the lifestyle and territorial development of Late Glacial and Mesolithic cultures. In @guardian: ow.ly/qkSq50QE8jS Read the full article in PNAS: ow.ly/YV1f50QE8jR

'Ancient #Indigenous ‘Songlines’ Match Long-Sunken Landscape off Australia' by @sciam. @jon_benj shares his views on the oldest underwater #archeology site at Murujuga. Read the background story behind this scientific endeavour @DeepSeaCountry scientificamerican.com/article/ancien…