Earthworks unearth human remains on building site

"While clearing vegetation and topsoil, the site’s developer — Walker Corporation — found a shallow grave with Indigenous remains. It’s one of the biggest mass burial sites ever discovered in the Adelaide area."

"The current plan is to build in areas where recognised Aboriginal heritage sites have been identified...It’s an unfortunate truism that often what we call heritage protection legislation ends up being development facilitation legislation,” archaeologist Lynley Wallis said."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-15/indigenous-mass-burial-ground-unearthed-at-riverlea/103056088
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