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23/08/2026

Fascinating!

Recent discoveries of “ghost” ancestors, ancient tools, and hidden earthworks are redefining the story of human origins, Ross Andersen writes. https://theatln.tc/Lh1vV4Vl

A team of researchers from UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University recently encountered a mysterious new sequence of DNA that doesn’t match that of any previously studied ancient hominin. At the link, read more about this discovery and how scientists are piecing it together with other findings to expand our understanding of humanity’s origins.

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22/08/2026

Just fantastic!
Good luck with your tremendous work.

20/08/2026

A few pics from Ballarat Old Cemetery, Victoria during the week.

13/08/2026

It’s easy to forget the importance of small moments.

Spending almost every waking moment on my Plot 2153 project these days thinking, writing and cooking things up on death, memory, storytelling and memorialisation it occurred to me that posting these pics were a great example of the personal and important moments in life…
So here are two brief stories.
Dom (my daughter) and I take joy from odd food creations and combinations such as these chips. When we find something like these we either buy them or send each other a pic. From memory it began when I brought home a packet of fairy floss flavoured Twistes.
Secondly, my wife Marita has recently retired and she used this fork each day in her lunch pack for work. Of course the fork was repurposed after her retirement and the fork found its way into the cutlery drawer which I complained about as in my view it didn’t belong there, it was an interloper. So Marita stuck it on the wall above the toaster…
It’s the little things like this that are both very unimportant and also very important.

07/08/2026

Fascinating.

A dolphin mother has carried its calf's remains for 11 days in what researchers believe could potentially reveal something new about dolphin mourning.

31/07/2026

Worth a thinking about.

31/07/2026

Excellent!

Decades after being taken by a University of Melbourne anthropologist, the remains of nine Aboriginal ancestors have been returned to their sacred home in Arnhem Land.

25/07/2026

Plot 2153’s stance on this is that hyper realistic mannequins based on deceased people require family agreement and appropriate signage should be erected (perhaps it has).
Any thoughts? I’d love you to share them here.

Volunteers at Carnarvon's One Mile Jetty Museum welcome three new members who do not have much to say but elicit either warm fondness or absolute fear from visitors.

23/07/2026

Terrific.

Nearly two years after vandals struck, volunteers have restored more than 100 damaged headstones in a southern Queensland cemetery.

22/07/2026

Forgive me for not posting anything here for quite some time.
It’s been an exciting but hectic time for Plot 2153 as projects have developed and multiplied.
The Plot 2153 introductory blurb has now been rewritten to more accurately reflect activities.
I hope you understand and remain a follower.
Now this is done we will be more active on our FB page. Stay tuned.