A team of researchers worked grueling, hot hours in the desert to understand the history of life in Earth’s oceans after a major extinction event.
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The tools reveal how Aboriginal ancestors survived and thrived in the continent’s interior more than 100 years ago.
Archaeologists are helping us reimagine life in ancient Saudi Arabia. With ‘packable’ housing, diverse diets and evidence of trade, these communities were more complex than we once thought.
New research reveals signs of ancient human habitation in a vast cave beneath the Arabian desert. It may have been used as a waystation by Stone Age herders travelling from one oasis to another.
Ongoing excavations in northern Iraq add to our knowledge of the neo-Assyrian empire – and the beauty of its cities.
The jewellery and human remains discovered at a recent excavation in Northamptonshire shed light on the elite position of some newly-Christian women in seventh century England.
The preparation of ancient meals in prehistoric West Africa combined vegetables, pulses, tubers and, possibly, herbs and spices.
Stone artifacts and a fossil tooth point to Homo sapiens living at Grotte Mandrin 54,000 years ago, at a time when Neanderthals were still living in Europe.
A remarkable set of discoveries has confirmed that parts of Stonehenge first stood 140 miles away at Waun Mawn, west Wales.
Archaeologists used to dig primarily at sites that were easy to find thanks to obvious visual clues. But technology – and listening to local people – plays a much bigger role now.
Digging the dirt on the joys of archeology.
For centuries, historians have assumed that ‘primitive societies’ couldn’t have possibly come up with advanced techniques on their own.
New excavations at an Indonesian cave have pushed back the time the ‘hobbits’ disappeared to about 50,000 years ago.
Was there a ‘dinosaur Pompeii’ in China? New research questions the claim.
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Professor, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University
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Indigenous Knowledge Holder, Pitta Pitta Aboriginal Corporation, Indigenous Knowledge
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Palaeobiology, University College Cork
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Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), University of Wollongong
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Researcher, Centre for Archeological Science, University of Wollongong
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Assistant Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University
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Associate Professor of Classics, Brown University
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Canada Research Chair in Human Origins, Lakehead University
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Head of Archaeology, University of Salford
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Archéologue et chercheur au CNRS, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France; Université de Toulouse
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State University
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Professor of Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, UCL
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Associate Professor, Near & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College Dublin
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Departmental Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Oxford