the committee for indigenous retoucher nation. includes experts from france and from australia.nt of success. it is absolutely critical for us on so many levels. on what level, in relation. a collection of original australian remains was in the 19th century and exercise actively pursued. there was a recognition this was a culture and a group that developed largely independently of just about anything else going on globally. they had a continuous history. back in those days, it was regarded as close calculations, a continuous history of 20,000 years. in reality it is now proved, but the assumption is 60. interesting to reflect that when humanity came out in the last ice age, the most advanced culture on earth was the australian indigenous culture. it is hard to think and contemplate that. but that was the case. one of the reasons essentially was, if you look at australia geologically and geographically, humanity in australia did not take the hits from the ice age that folks in the northern hemisphere did. further south, demonstrated there's no one there at all. so there was a hig