This is an excerpt from episode 83 featuring the last 20 minutes or so of my conversation with award-winning archaeology professor, Peter Veth. We pick it up at the tail end of Peter answering my question about how archaeology has changed to work with First Nations, not on them. We went on to chat about the global ‘blockbuster’ exhibition Songlines, currently touring, and how it’s changing the Australian (and arguably world) psyche.

We then delve more into the extraordinary impacts that these emerging ‘finds’ and connections are having on people – both First Nations and the rest of us. And take a final sweeping look across country at the extraordinary living cultural heritage coming to light, and what needs to happen with it in response. We close with Peter’s reflections on the value of a life, in the context of crisis and deep time.

Title slide: The dawn over Cape Range, the day after final production of this episode (pic: Anthony James).

Music:
The Great Unwind, by William Tyler off his album Modern Country.

Find more:
You can hear the rest of our conversation in the main episode, Regenerating in Deep Time: New finds, narratives and future possibilities. 
 
You can see a few terrific early photographs of Peter among some of the First Nations communities we talked about, on that episode web page too.

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