Peter Riley#Juukan Gorge is named after a #PuutuKuntiKurrama ancestor.
On May 2020 47,000 years of heritage was blasted by Rio (Stinko) Tinto - plundering and polluting for profit regardless of the social and environmental consequences.
Radical AnthropologyInitial report on the world significant #Juukan 2 rockshelter site. The results substantially revise the known antiquity of human occupation for the #Pilbara region and with that our understanding of the timing and processes of human settlement of the arid interior of #Australia.
This unique and precious 47,000 year old site was destroyed in 2020 by RioTintoZinc (who subsequently issued a pathetic apology for what amounts to a crime against humanity). Just imagine a corporation being permitted to destroy a cave of the Upper Palaeolithic!
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Australia #archaeology
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027737912400324X
Mojo ♻️In May 2020, as part of a legally sanctioned expansion of an #ironore mine, #RioTinto destroyed an ancient rockshelter at #Juukan Gorge in Puutu Kunti Kurrama Country, located in the #Pilbara region of #WesternAustralia. The initial published findings from Juukan Gorge reveal that 47,000 years of Aboriginal heritage were obliterated in the #mining blast.
#HistoryInRuins #LocalHistory #Australia
Alternative Liberal Party Prime Miniature “Albo” is in WA aka “Woodside Australia” to encourage a 'yes' vote in “Voice” referendum wearing the logo of …. “Rio Stinko” aka Rio Tinto the plundering and polluting corporate racket that destroyed the Juukan Gorge site in May 2020… Juukan was named by the daughter of First Nations Puutu Kunti Kurrama man #Juukan born at Jukarinya.
NishIt's been a year since Rio Tinto blew up the sacred #Juukan Gorge caves. It was devastating then, and it's still devastating now.
The laws that let this happen are still broken. There is so much work still to do. 1/2
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/lidia__thorpe/status/1396624449193996290