From the tropics of Borneo, Darren Curnoe posted a daily diary sharing his team’s dig to explore ancient cemeteries. Through two metres of clay, human bones and tools were discovered.
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Archaeology is not only about stones and bones: it is mainly about the people of the past. DNA is one way to get from the stones and the bones to the people and their stories.
Evolutionary biologists ask very similar questions about species to those asked by linguists about languages.
Evidence of Homo naledi’s age suggests we need to rethink our understanding of human history and evolution.
The environment minister recently told a conference that agriculture is as old as ‘mankind’. She’s out by a few million years.
Ask any anthropologist what they do and they will find it hard to give you a direct answer. But it ultimately comes down to studying people and their culture.
Humans evolved in Africa, spread across the world, and then it gets messy. Luckily advances in genetic sequencing have helped us track the complex history of human migration.
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Mathematics Lecturer and Ancient DNA Researcher, University of Adelaide
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Director, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), University of Wollongong
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Principal Research Associate, UCL
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Paleoanthropologist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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ARC Laureate Fellow, Monash University, Director of Global Encounters Program., Monash University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Newcastle
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Senior Research Associate in Translational Genomics, University of Oxford
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Professor, Southern Cross University
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Independent Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Professor, Griffith University
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Professor in the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution & Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University
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Professor, Griffith University
