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The fossil skull that shook the world – the complex colonial legacy of Townfind 100 years later
Australopithecus africanus specimens discovered in South Africa, 2.1 million years ago, are cast in three parts: endocrine, face and mandibles of children in the town. Collection from the University of Witwatersland (Institute of Evolutionary Research) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Sterkfontein Cave, Hominid Fossil. Credit: Didier Descouins via Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 Here’s how the story of a town’s children is…
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Uncovering the past: How NZ’s first prison tells a complex story of colonial identity
View of Kororareka in the Bay of Islands, 1845. Credit: George Thomas Clayton, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY New Zealand’s first prison was a simple, symmetrical four-room log building built in 1840 at Okiato in the Bay of Islands, not far from present-day Russell. But its history, especially its forgotten parts, can tell us a lot about how we have constructed…
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Nobel Prize in Economics: How colonial history explains why strong institutions are essential to a nation’s prosperity
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain This year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics went to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and James Robinson of the University of Chicago for their research into why there are such wide differences in prosperity between nations. In announcing the award, Jacob Svensson, chairman of the Economics Prize Committee, said: “Closing…
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