An Aboriginal tree on Wiradjuri Country is much younger than anybody thought.
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You can’t own a human, so why can you own their remains? We need to stop treating human fossils as objects.
A recent ruling allowing a new expedition to the Titanic wreck gives the go ahead to commercial exploitation.
There are some moves towards recognising and redressing archaeology’s colonial history.
The plants a Roman chose could say a lot about the person they were.
The artefact comes from deposits dated to more than 60,000 years ago. It closely resembles thousands of bone arrowheads used by the indigenous San hunter-gatherers from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
Without a clear framework within which decisions can be made, heritage resources will forever be threatened by development.
The footprints of over 20 different prehistoric people, pressed into volcanic ash thousands of years ago in Tanzania, show possible evidence for sexual division of labor in this ancient community.
Archaeologists have long studied diseases in past populations. They’ve explored the evolution of pathogens and how they interacted with humans.
The Baltic crusades had a long term impact on the local environment – 700 years later, the details of this are clear.
Modern dating techniques are providing new time frames for indigenous settlements in Northeast North America, free from the Eurocentric bias that previously led to incorrect assumptions.
New technology is helping archaeologists uncover details of the playwright’s home, workplaces and his final resting place.
During the transitional period between the Pleistocene and Holocene epoch, the Earth’s temperature underwent massive change, forcing prehistoric humans in Indonesia to change their diet.
Active learning brings new knowledge to children and to their community.
The DNA of microbes and food trapped in the teeth can reveal information about diet and health.
Archaeologists have long argued over when and how people first domesticated horses. A decade ago, new techniques appeared to have provided answers – but further discoveries change the story again.
An archaeologist tells the story of how she and her colleagues discovered a traditional Irish village, a clachan, in a South Australian field – the first confirmed clachan found outside Ireland.
New modelling techniques shed light on the ancient city of Ugarit and can help plan effective conservation.
An archaeological site in India sheds new light on how ancient humans dispersed from Africa across the world.
Charred plant remains from one of the oldest archaeological sites reveal that the first Australians ate a varied - and sometimes labour-intensive - diet.
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PhD Candidate, Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Transforming Human Origins Research, Griffith University
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Professor in Geochronology and Geochemistry, Southern Cross University
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Associate Professor and Director, Flinders Microarchaeology Laboratory, Flinders University
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Professor of Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Bournemouth University; University of Reading
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Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Curator of Human Evolution of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW
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Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
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Head, Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University