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Cook Islands fish hooks
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/pasifika-collections/fish-hooks/cook-islands/Learn about the traditional fishing techniques used across the Cook Islands that relied on natural materials such as fibres, wood, bones and shells for crafting hooks and nets.
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Tuvaluan fish hooks
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/pasifika-collections/fish-hooks/tuvalu/Tuvalu consists of three reef islands and six atolls; the ocean and fishing has been the life source of the people for centuries.
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Tongan fish hooks
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/pasifika-collections/fish-hooks/tonga/Fishing in Tonga has been integral to the culture and livelihood of its people for centuries. Tonga's location provides abundant opportunities for fishing; and fishing methods have been passed down through generations.
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Nauruan fish hook
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/pasifika-collections/fish-hooks/nauru/Nauru is a coral limestone island surrounded by a coral reef and fishing is essential to daily life. Nauruans practiced the farming of ibiya (milkfish) long before European contact.
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Caroline Islands fish hooks
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/pasifika-collections/fish-hooks/caroline-islands/The Caroline Islands are an archipelago of small islands scattered across the western Pacific Ocean. Across these islands, many different forms of traditional fishing knowledge is shared.
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Flint knives from Wadi el-Sheikh, Egypt
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/international-collection/ancient-egyptian/flint-knives/Discover the fascinating applications of flint knives as part of daily life in ancient Egypt through insights shared by Dr Stan Florek.
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Dargan Shelter: Oldest human occupied Ice Age site found in the Blue Mountains
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/australian-archaeology/dargan-shelter-oldest-ice-age-site/The Dargan Shelter, a large rock shelter on Dharug Country in the upper Blue Mountains near Lithgow, NSW is the highest elevation Pleistocene site identified in Australia.
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Polynesian-style stone adzes
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/pasifika-collections/polynesian-stone-adzes/During the 2022 Norfolk Island expedition, two Polynesian-style stone adzes, made of basalt, were excavated during an archaeological excavation.
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Australian theropods
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/australian-dinosaurs/australian-theropod-dinosaurs/The Australian theropod fossil record is extremely limited. Triassic and Jurassic theropod body fossils are completely unknown on this continent. Most Australian theropod fossils come from the Early to Late Cretaceous, largely because sedimentary rocks of this age far more productive for fossils in
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What is a dinosaur?
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/what-is-a-dinosaur/The word ‘dinosaur’ means ‘terrible lizard’ in Greek.
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