[Aqualist] archaeology talks at the National Museum of Australia

[Tim Barrows]

Two Archaeological Events of Interest at the National Museum of Australia

Saturday 12 February

The Hobbit From the Isle of 
Flowers                                                   Free


To celebrate Darwin Day the Canberra Sceptics present Professor Colin 
Groves from the Australian National University who will discuss Homo 
floresiensis, or the “Hobbit”, which caused a sensation when its discovery 
was announced late in 2004. Since then it has been accused of being 
anything from an australopithecine to a bird-headed dwarf. What was it 
really? And how does it fit into the human tree?

Studio                                                           5.45 pm – 
7.30 pm



Tuesday 15 February

Rock Paintings of the Western Cape, South Africa                         Free


John Parkington, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cape Town, 
will talk about the meaning of southern African rock paintings and 
engravings. Looking closely at the details of the paintings of the western 
Cape, and deriving ideas from stories collected by Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm 
Bleek in the 1870s professor Parkington will argue that the paintings are 
informed by the expectations and experiences of men and women as they 
proceed through their separate but linked life histories.

Studio                                                           6.00 pm – 
7.00 pm