Sean Ulm

Distinguished Professor of Archaeology at James Cook University & Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories & Futures

[Sean Ulm @SeanUlm]

Aboriginal people made pottery and sailed to distant offshore islands thousands of years before Europeans arrived https://t.co/wFBDGNlxZS via @ConversationEDU

[Sean Ulm @SeanUlm]

After nearly 13 years on Twitter/X, I'm retiring from it today and moving full-time over to @bluesky.

If you would like to continue our conversations I'll be at https://t.co/NT6lAvMDVK

It's been fun.

[Sean Ulm @SeanUlm]

An amazing 590 respondents already to the Australian Archaeology in Profile 2025: A Survey of Working Archaeologists!

More than 1/3 of respondents so far anticipate their archaeological workplace will grow in 2025.

Please complete the survey at:

https://t.co/6901fQI42q

[Sean Ulm @SeanUlm]

An amazing 569 respondents already to the Australian Archaeology in Profile 2025: A Survey of Working Archaeologists!

More than 70% of respondents so far indicate that they are employed full-time.

Please complete the survey at: https://t.co/6901fQHwcS

[Sean Ulm @SeanUlm]

New excavation of ‘rings of mystery’ in Victoria reveals rich Aboriginal history https://t.co/xzYvdgsR9l via @ConversationEDU

Full text of the article by @carolinedigs and colleagues published in @AustArchJ available at: https://t.co/IQ034GxSaD

[Sean Ulm @SeanUlm]

An amazing 500 respondents already to the Australian Archaeology in Profile 2025: A Survey of Working Archaeologists!

More than 1/3 of respondents so far indicate that they have a PhD or MPhil.

Please complete the survey at:

https://t.co/6901fQI42q

[Sean Ulm @SeanUlm]

Already 460 respondents to our Australian Archaeology in Profile 2025: A Survey of Working Archaeologists!

1/3 indicate that they worked for more than 1 employer in 2024.

QLD, SA & ACT are still poorly represented.

Please complete the survey at:

https://t.co/6901fQI42q

[Sean Ulm @SeanUlm]

Celebrate truth, knowledge and cultures with Always Was, Always Will Be this 19-26 January 2025 on @NITV and @SBS #TheFirstInventors

https://t.co/O0c5sX9oZL

[Sean Ulm @SeanUlm]

@ashlarblocks @AIMA_underwater @FlindersMAP @shipwrekmermaid Yes, it is really a catch-all, but many people have elaborated on their actual areas of study in the comments, which we use for nuance.

[Sean Ulm @SeanUlm]

Already 415 respondents to our Australian Archaeology in Profile 2025: A Survey of Working Archaeologists!

But maritime archaeology and classical archaeology are very poorly represented!

Where are you @AIMA_underwater???

Please complete the survey at:

https://t.co/Hz5eMWgEZ6

[Sean Ulm @SeanUlm]

An amazing 244 respondents already to our Australian Archaeology in Profile 2025: A Survey of Working Archaeologists!

BUT only 12 from South Australia and 4 from the ACT!

Where are you?????

Please complete the survey at:

https://t.co/Hz5eMWgEZ6

[Sean Ulm @SeanUlm]

Congratulations @alidoostsalimi! Wonderful to see this paper out! @ciehfcoe #AustralianArchaeology

[Dr Amy Prendergast @AmyLPrendergast]

I am very happy to share my PhD student @alidoostsalimi ‘s first PhD publication! 🐚🐚🎉🎉

Great Barrier Reef Conomurex shells as SST and seasonal foraging archives

#sclerochronology
#ProudSupervisor
@SciMelb @SeanUlm @ciehfcoe @cabahCoE

https://t.co/MqaNeEvy9t

[Sean Ulm @SeanUlm]

Thank-you @SING_Australia for a thought-provoking panel to kick-off the @AustArchaeology 2024 conference!

[SING_Australia @SING_Australia]

What a wonderful start to #AAA45 in #Gimuy we appreciate you inviting #SINGAustralia to open with an #Indigenous #Genomics panel and thank you @ciehf for sponsoring our session

[Sean Ulm @SeanUlm]

Another great @ciehfcoe postdocjob opportunity, this time at the UWA Node:

https://t.co/s3tyHHydDC

@AAAStudents @AustArchaeology #AustralianArchaeology

[Sean Ulm @SeanUlm]

Australian Archaeology in Profile 2025: A Survey of Working Archaeologists

Help us build a profile of professional archaeology in Australia! Now in its 20th year, this survey develops an understanding of our discipline and how it is changing.

https://t.co/Hz5eMWgEZ6

[Sean Ulm @SeanUlm]

I'm moving over the BlueSky. Please follow me there at:

https://t.co/NT6lAvMDVK

[Michelle Langley @Dr_MCLangley]

So glad to see this work out! Lead by the fabulous @FionaHook:
Late Pleistocene scaphopod beads from Boodie Cave and deep time traditions of personal ornamentation in northwest Australia
https://t.co/S4KcPBFPxL

[Australian Archaeology @AustArchJ]

New article by Michael Kneppers and colleagues compares methods of mollusc quantification from two midden sites on the northern Great Barrier Reef island group of Jiigurru (the Lizard Island Group). 🔓⬇️
https://t.co/jsUgCUbUJK

[Sean Ulm @SeanUlm]

Many thanks to @DawulWuru for hosting @ciehfcoe on beautiful Yirrganydji Country at Jakal/Palm Cove this week!

[Sean Ulm @SeanUlm]

Another important contribution led by @LynleyWallis documenting and protecting the Indigenous cultural heritage of Cape York Peninsula.

[QAR @QldArchResearch]

New @QldArchResearch #OpenAccess article – A preliminary study of culturally modified sugarbag trees in the Laura Sandstone Basin, Cape York Peninsula by @LynleyWallis, Heather Burke, Mia Dardengo, Cat Morgan, Noelene Cole et al.

https://t.co/hr4i1FxVnR

[Sean Ulm @SeanUlm]

It was an amazing privilege to spend more time with the Butchulla Aboriginal Corporation last week, listening to Country and talking about how we can work together to support Butchulla aspirations for healthy Country.