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Humans were adapting to sea-level change 40,000 years ago: study
Early people were rapidly adapting to climate change as they made their way towards Australia tens of thousands of years ago, new research shows.
CHL Tales: ๑๔ (Untitled: #14)
Dr Janit Feangfu reads ๑๔ (Untitled: #14), a poem by Phu Kradat, in Thai.
Meet Kate Walton
Activist and writer Kate Walton has worked across a range of international aid and development projects in Indonesia since graduating more than a decade ago.
Stone tools from a remote cave reveal how island-hopping humans made a living in the jungle millennia ago
Prehistoric axes and beads found in caves on a remote Indonesian island suggest this was a crucial staging post for seafaring people who lived in this region as the last ice age was coming to an en
Alumni profile: Dr Evi Eliyanah
CHL Alumni Dr Evi Eliyanah is the 2019 recipient of the Ann Bates Postgraduate Prize for Indonesian Studies.
Mongolian Medicine, Multispecies Storytelling and Multimodal Anthropology
Coronavirus has heightened awareness that “we can’t afford to be as anthropocentric about infectious diseases”, says ANU researcher Dr Natasha Fijn.
Bloodletting in Mongolia: Three Visual Narratives
The ancient medical tradition of bloodletting in Mongolia is explored in a dynamic digital publication examining the significance of fluids and flows in the history of medicine.
CHL Tales: The Monkey and the Crocodile
McComas Taylor reads The Monkey and the Crocodile, a story from the Panchatantra, in Sanskrit.
Alumni profile: Dr Katerina Naitoro
Recent PhD graduate Dr Katerina Naitoro is the 2020 recipient of the Stephen Wurm Prize for Pacific Linguistics.
From the Director: Semester 2 2020
The School of Culture, History and Language is a bustling hub of researchers, teachers and professional staff; together we use our disciplinary and area-based expertise—unparalleled anywhere else i
