We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and may be distressing. In April 1789, the first smallpox ...

Not much is known about the Aboriginal man known as “Musquito” (c.1780–1825). This does not make him unusual among the ...

This is the earliest evidence for offshore island use on the northern Great Barrier Reef. The reef shells eaten and discarded in these lowest levels had been buried so quickly that they still have ...

Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, about 2,000 years earlier than previously thought. Some of the first human ...