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Dead Cats on Tables and the Australian Nation:
The history of power, authority, and identity infiltrating our prehistory and archaeology

Molly Turnbull​ considers how colonial and contemporary politics have influenced the practice of archaeology and the depiction of Indigenous Australian cultures.

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Western European prehistory in Australia? A historic illustration of the Mt Elephant Stone Circle - James Waltham Curtis, Stone Circles near Mount Elephant, 1877. 

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