EAN: 9783319847665

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN PACIFIC HISTORY SCIENCE M...

This book draws on over twenty years' investigation of scientific archives in Europe  Australia
and other former British settler colonies. It explains how and why skulls and other bodily
structures of Indigenous Australians became the focus of scientific curiosity about the nature
and origins of human diversity from the early years of colonisation in the late eighteenth
century to Australia achieving nationhood at the turn of the twentieth century. The last thirty
years have seen the world's indigenous peoples seek the return of their ancestors' bodily
remains from museums and medical schools throughout the western world. Turnbull reveals how the
remains of the continent's first inhabitants were collected during the long nineteenth century
by the plundering of their traditional burial places. He also explores the question of whether
museums also acquired the bones of men and women who were killed in Australian frontier regions
by military  armed police and settlers.

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