For many years, it was believed that the Aboriginal people of Tasmania had become extinct and that their culture, languages, ...

The University of Aberdeen is to repatriate a murdered Aboriginal man's remains, thought to have been obtained during a colonial conquest in Tasmania. It is believed the young man was decapitated near ...

After more than 170 years abroad, the remains of a Tasmanian Aboriginal man have returned home following a significant ...

Two items long-displayed in Scottish university collections have been reunited with a Tasmanian Aboriginal group after lengthy discussions for repatriation. A skull of a young man, along with a ...

“It would be unacceptable for these ancestral remains to be used for research, teaching or exhibitions purposes:” A Tasmanian Aboriginal murder victim’s skull held in Scotland for 170 years ...

The skull of an Aboriginal man who is thought to have been killed by colonizers in the early 19th century has been returned for burial in Tasmania from a British university. The remains of the ...

The man was shot dead on Tasmania’s Shannon River in possibly the 1820s or 1830s, and his head removed “in order to service (the) trade in Aboriginal body parts”. The only thing known about ...

The 148cm-long necklace is believed to have been made by Aboriginal women on the Bass Strait islands, located between Tasmania and mainland Australia. It features elenchus or maireener shells ...