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Anthropology

2002 Bali Bombing

At 11pm on 12 October 2002, two suicide bombers killed two 202 people in Indonesia in an attack on popular Balinese nightclubs Sari Club and Paddy’s Bar. The victims came from 21 countries, with 88 Australians killed and hundreds injured. On 14 October, a specialist team from the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Glebe Coroner’s Court flew to Bali to assist in identifying the remains.

John Doe 1994

The John Doe case was a landmark missing person case for the New South Wales Institute of Forensic Medicine at the Glebe Morgue when an unidentified body was found in the Hawkesbury River in August 1994.

Anthropological Society of New South Wales

Society of predominantly amateur anthropologists formed in the 1920s at the Australian Museum.

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Darwin, Charles

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Naturalist who visited Sydney in 1836 during his 5-year voyage in the Beagle, when he began to formulate the theory of evolution.

Donlon, Denise

Forensic anthropologist

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Elkin, Adolphus Peter

Anglican clergyman and professor of anthropology who was a proponent of the assimilation of Indigenous Australians.

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Geddes, Bill

Anthropologist and academic who worked for cross-cultural understanding and tolerance.

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Hage, Ghassan

Lebanese born academic in the field of anthropology and social theory.

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Johnson, Dianne

Anthropologist whose interest in Papua New Guinea lead her to abandon teaching and pursue studies of Indigenous affairs and the traditional owners of the Blue Mountains and Tasmania.

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McCarthy, Frederick

Anthropologist and archaeologist who had a long career starting at the age of 14 at the Australian Museum. His research was based on aboriginal prehistory and archaeology of Australia. He extensively recorded and photographed ethnographic aspects of aboriginal communities he visited. He also campaigned for the preservation of Aboriginal rock art and engravings. He was Foundation Principal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

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Mead, Margaret

American cultural anthropologist.

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Miklouho-Maclay, Nikolai

Ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist who established the first marine research station in Sydney.

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Pink, Olive Muriel

Aboriginal-rights activist, anthropologist, artist and gardener who lived in Sydney from the 1910s to 1930s before moving to Alice Springs.

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Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred

Social anthropologist who studied the fundamental units of anthropology as processes of human life and interaction.

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Stanner, William Edward Hanley

Australian anthropologist, author, journalist, soldier and political adviser.

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Sutisno, Meiya

Forensic anatomist, anthropologist and Expert Witness in Forensic Anatomy & Imagery Analysis.

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Wafer, James William

Jim Wafer is an anthropologist with a specialisation in the sub-fields of anthropological linguistics and anthropology of religion.

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von Scherzer, Karl

Austrian explorer, diplomat and naturalist.

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Cobble chopper found at Castlereagh by Eugene Stockton in 1974, later dated at 50,000 years old

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David James

From the collections of the

Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney

Darug women Rhiannon Wright, Leanne Watson and Erin Wilkins with Rene Breuls visiting a rockshelter in the Maroota area September ...

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Grace Karskens

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Grace Karskens

Illustration of rock carving showing man with axe and hat that was done by Hiram c1855 in the Hawkesbury area 1896

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Robert Hamilton Mathews

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Biodiversity Heritage Library

[Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, VOL. XII. 1896 PLATE VIII.]

Portrait of Charles Darwin, late 1830s

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By

George Richmond

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Wikimedia Commons

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Sauvages de Nouvelle-Hollande, Aux Terres Australies, Table II

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Internet Archive

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(Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes exécuté par ordre de Sa Majesté l'empereur et roi, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, et la goëlette le Casuarina, pendent les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804; [Historique] publié par decret impérial, sous le ministère de M. de Champagny et rédigé par M. F. Péron, Paris : De l'Imprimerie impériale. 1807, Vol 1, p477, contributor Boston Public Library)