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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

New CEOs, Executive Directors, Literary Editors and more make up this week's round-up of arts sector appointments, comings and goings.

"Sea level rise drowned a vast habitable area of north-western Australi" by Kasih Norman, Corey J.A. Bradshaw et al.

For most of the period of human occupation of Sahul (the combined Pleistocene landmass of Australia and New Guinea), lower sea levels exposed an extensive area of the northwest of the Australian continent, connecting the Kimberley and Arnhem Land into one vast area. Our analysis of high-resolution bathymetric data shows this now-drowned region existed as an extensive archipelago in Marine Isotope Stage 4, transforming in Marine Isotope Stage 2 into a fully exposed shelf containing an inland sea adjacent to a large freshwater lake. These were encircled by deep gorges and escarpments that likely acted as important resource zones and refugia for human populations at that time. Demographic modelling shows the shelf had a fluctuating potential carrying capacity through Marine Isotope Stages 4–2, with the capability to support 50–500 k people at various times. Two periods of rapid global sea level rise at 14.5–14.1 ka (Meltwater Pulse 1A), and between 12 ka and 9 ka, resulted in the ra

This landmark study as helped uncover the history of Wiradjuri scar trees

The study will help repatriate the ancestral remains removed from Wiradjuri Country.

Unveiling sacred Wiradjuri carved trees

Unveiling the sacred Wiradjuri carved trees