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Image of bright blue rock paintings at Awunbarna (Mt Borradaile) in western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, showing striking blue figures painted on a sandstone rock shelter wall among more traditional rock art colours.
A promotional graphic for a recent journal article. On the left is the article title, *Counting on kin and Country, not just calories: Beyond subsistence thinking in GunaiKurnai zooarchaeology, southeastern Australia*, with the list of authors beneath. On the right are eight black-and-white illustrations of traditional *waribruk* markings on possum skins, arranged in a grid. A caption below the illustrations reads: "Illustrations of *waribruk* markings on possum skins, from Howitt (1904:742)."
Bar chart showing Indigenous authorship in Australian Archaeology from 2015–2025, with a marked increase over the past decade and a peak of around 90% in 2023.
This figure traces the chronological development of Art Panel A at Snake Rock, showing how superposition analysis identified multiple phases of image production. The earliest interpreted images appear in Phase 2, while the most recent belong to Phase 3b, revealing a long and dynamic history of artistic activity at this important Wiradjuri site.
Alt text: Diagram showing the excavated skeletal remains of “Garli,” a millennium-old dingo burial from Kinchega National Park on Barkindji Country in western New South Wales. The figure maps recovered bones by body position and indicates whether elements were complete, partial, or fragmentary.
Map of New Guinea highlighting the Baliem Valley region discussed in McNiven’s review of Stone and Fibre, including selected cultural groups and locations across Papua and Papua New Guinea.
Image from the article “LiDAR-derived high-resolution geomorphological analysis for archaeology: Case study of the Gunditjmara aquaculture engineering systems at Budj Bim, Australia.” The image shows a LiDAR-derived terrain model highlighting large stone fish traps within the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, with inset photographs and arrows indicating archaeological features identified through high-resolution geomorphological analysis.
“Familiar, not foreign: Depictions of watercraft in the rock art of mainland southeast Cape York Peninsula, Queensland” by Wallis et al., alongside a collage of 14 rock art images depicting watercraft motifs. The motifs include painted and engraved sailing vessels and boats in red, white and brown pigments from rock art sites across southeast Cape York Peninsula.
Cover of Australian Archaeology, Volume 91, Number 3 (November 2025). The image shows a series of archaeological fibre artefacts arranged in panels, including a wrapped cylindrical object, fragments of cordage, netting, and several woven bags or garments in natural brown tones, each displayed with measurement scales.
Cover of the book Working as Indigenous Archaeologists: Reckoning New Paths Between Past and Present Lives, edited by George Nicholas and Joe Watkins. The cover features bold title text on a neutral background with Indigenous-inspired images.
Figure from a journal article titled “Cultural learning with 3D objects: First Nations perspectives in commercial archaeology.” Below the title, a figure shows a 3D model of a culturally modified tree surrounded by multiple floating camera images in Agisoft Metashape.