Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia

It explains how and why skulls and other bodily structures of Indigenous Australians became the focus of scientific curiosity about the nature and origins of human diversity from the early years of colonisation in the late eighteenth century to Australia achieving nationhood at the turn of the twentieth century.

Acesta explica cum si de ce craniile si alte structuri corporale ale australienilor indigeni au devenit punctul central al curiozitatii stiintifice cu privire la natura si originile diversitatii umane de la primii ani de colonizare la sfarsitul secolului al XVIII-lea pana in Australia, obtinand natiunea la inceputul secolului al XX-lea.