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New paired research papers have pushed back by 100,000 years the time frame in which humans (Homo sapiens) are thought to have lived in Africa.
Layers and layers of sand and sediment collected in Naracoorte Caves create windows into what Australia was like in our recent past.
A new, “baby dragon” dinosaur revealed in a fossil returned to China is a striking example of the discoveries that might be lost when scientific specimens are illegally removed and traded.
Part of the land inhabited by some of the early Australians is now submerged, but details of their life is now revealed in an excavation on an island off the continent’s north-west coast.
Ancient bone and teeth ornaments found in an Indonesian cave advance our knowledge of the culture and traditions of some of the earliest people in our region.
The proof is in the pottery.
From high chairs in public bathrooms to handbag baskets in cafes, Japan is a considerate place. Australia can learn from a society where material culture acts as a reminder to be aware of the needs of others.
Excavations have shown that early humans were frequent visitors to the same coastal area over tens of thousands of years.
Digging the dirt on the joys of archeology.
A mysterious papyrus said to come from the Judaen Desert could be the first to reveal the name of Jerusalem.
Archaeologists found thousands of objects in a remote Australian cave which shows Aborigines made it inland some 10,000 years earlier than first thought. So what did they find?
With the refugee crisis, Brexit, and the rise of populist extremism, we must defend the teaching of anthropology. And in doing so, we might expand and rethink ideas of “the humanities”.
Is this evidence that Rome traded with Japan? Almost certainly not.
Fossil finds on another dig on an Indonesian Island show the Hobbits may have been around for much longer than first thought.
New fossil finds show the first large-bodied inhabitants of an isolated Indonesian island evolved to Hobbit-size, but they always remembered how to make and use stone tools.
Robots can explore where humans fear to tread.
New excavations at an Indonesian cave have pushed back the time the ‘hobbits’ disappeared to about 50,000 years ago.
Turns out the Egyptians weren’t the only ones who mummified their dead.
The remains of the Aboriginal man who lived more than 40,000 years ago are on the move again. But they’re still not returning home, to the place where they were discovered four decades ago.
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Sean Ulm is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, James Cook University
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Professor of Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Emeritus Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Professor of Archaeological Science, Griffith University
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Laureate Professor in Archaeology, The University of Western Australia
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Research Centre of Archeometry, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN)
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Michael Bird is a Friend of The Conversation.
JCU Distinguished Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, James Cook University
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Honorary Fellow, School of Geograpy, Earth and Atmospheric Science, SGEAS, The University of Melbourne
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Researcher in Palaeontology, University of Wollongong
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), University of Wollongong
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Professor in Geochronology and Geochemistry, Southern Cross University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology; Griffith University
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Professor, Director of Centre for Rock Art Research + Management, The University of Western Australia