UQ Anthropology Museum presents a special one-week program highlighting the exhibition Kirrenderri, Heart of the Channel Country and extensive archaeological research carried out in collaboration with Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation on Channel Country, held in conjunction with National Archaeology Week.

Daily from 11am – 12pm. Join us at the UQ Anthropology Museum, Level 1 Michie Building (9) for a walking tour of the exhibition with archaeologists.

• Monday 16 May Fiona Mathieson, discussing the archaeologically informed productive boom and bust landscape and trading routes that traverse the Channel Country, with important insights into her Honours research on understanding that trade of basalt axes.

• Tuesday 17 May Jessica Gibbs, talking about what mouse teeth and grass seeds can teach us about life on Channel Country in the past and caring for this remarkable landscape into the future.

• Wednesday 18 May Fletcher Webster, discussing research around the Nurrenderri blade quarry site that is the subject of his Honours thesis research.

• Thursday 19 May Dr Phil Habgood will discuss research at the only known rock art site from Mithaka country, Gilparrka Almira, and its extensive silcrete quarry.

• Friday 20 May Sam Stephen will discuss the excavation of the gunyah site and her work supervising an ongoing volunteer effort to recover the excavated finds & understand what was going on at what might be Australia's oldest standing houses.

When: 11am to 12pm, Monday to Friday 16-20 May 2022

Where: UQ Anthropology Museum, Level 1 Michie Building (9), 9 Chancellors Place, St Lucia Qld 4067

For more information: https://anthropologymuseum.uq.edu.au/exhibitions/kirrenderri-heart-channel-country

Image: Mithaka Stone Arrangement 2021. Photo: Lyndon Mechielsen