How Aboriginal Australians forged tools from early British ships
31 March 2018
It's an archaeological detective story that began on a building site in Sydney and ended on the banks of the River Thames in London. The BBC's Phil Mercer reports on the unlikely origin of recently found Aboriginal artefacts.
For indigenous Australians, the arrival of British settlers in 1788 undoubtedly marked the start of dispossession, violence and policies that would cause generations of harm.
But recent research has also given more insight into how Aboriginal groups used some colonial technology to their advantage, heritage experts say.
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