Sean Ulm

Nov 13, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Fiona Hook |Michelle Langley |Sean Ulm |Jo McDonald

AbstractTubular segments of Scaphopoda (tusk shell) were traditionally used by Aboriginal peoples in the manufacture of ornate bead necklaces across northwest Australia. Twenty-seven scaphopod shell beads were recovered from Boodie Cave on Barrow Island dating to between 13,500 and 10,600 cal BP.

May 24, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Annie Ross |Sean Ulm |Jane Balme |Brit Asmussen

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Apr 16, 2024 | zmescience.com | Sean Ulm |Mihai Andrei

Pottery was largely unknown in Australia before the recent past, despite well-known pottery traditions in nearby Papua New Guinea and the islands of the western Pacific. The absence of ancient Indigenous pottery in Australia has long puzzled researchers. Over the past 400 years, pottery from southeast Asia appeared across northern Australia, associated with the activities of Makassan people from Sulawesi (this activity was mainly trepanging, or collecting sea cucumbers).

Apr 16, 2024 | zmescience.com | Sean Ulm

Very little research has been conducted in the area.