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Indigenous Australian message sticks, which feature markings to convey messages over long distances, analyzed for first time at scale through new database of 1,500 artifacts

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AMSD: The Australian Message Stick Database

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One of three Muruwari message sticks (AMSD ID: AMus_E032197) in the Australian Museum, previously on display as ‘Maker unknown’.

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Credit: Kelly et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Indigenous Australian message sticks, which feature markings to convey messages over long distances, analyzed for first time at scale through new database of 1,500 artifacts

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0299712

Article Title: AMSD: The Australian Message Stick Database

Author Countries: Australia, Germany

Funding: The lead author (Piers Kelly) receives salary and project funding specifically for the research described in this paper. He is funded by an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award with the grant number DE220100795. No other author has received specific funding for this work. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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