What wind, currents and geography tell us about how people first settled Oceania
Reading time: 8 minutes Just look at a map of Remote Oceania – the region of the Pacific that...
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Tag: Colonisation
How early Australian settlers drew maps to erase Indigenous people and push ideas of colonial superiority
Reading time: 6 minutes The new Netflix series Shadow and Bone opens with cartographer Alina...
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The Two Countries That ‘Escaped’ The Scramble for Africa
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes The Scramble for Africa is often recognized as the beginning of...
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The First Australians grew to a population of millions, much more than previous estimates
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes We know it is more than 60,000 years since...
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Archaeologists determined the step-by-step path taken by the first people to settle the Caribbean islands
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes For the millions of people around the world who live on islands...
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