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Tattooing tools made and used 2,700 years ago include two blades made on human bone.
Reading and writing may have evolved thanks to a natural ability of the brain’s visual cortex to process geometrical shapes.
Learning is not just for young people – it can help older people lead fulfilling lives in their twilight years.
Let’s worry about the future of Brexit, not its prehistory.
The Coorong’s Indigenous heritage is threatened by off-road vehicles and climate change.
Archaeologists have found cloves and black pepper corns they believe to be more than 1,000 years old at a site in Sri Lanka.
Male monks were not the sole producers of books throughout the Middle Ages.
Scientists have discovered new evidence of a drought that finished off the Akkadian Empire 4,000 years ago.
Without due process, archeological digs turn into into expensive and directionless treasure hunts from which little research value can be extracted.
New discovery could be a game changer for archaeology.
In the shadow of the pyramids of Giza, lie the tombs of the courtiers and officials who built these vast structures.
Academics from different disciplines come Head to Head in this series to tackle topical debates.
Archaeological research at Christiansborg Castle in Ghana has provided an in-depth understanding of Danish, Ga and Danish-Ga lived experiences during the eighteenth century transatlantic slave trade.
A fresh look at museum artifacts fills in a gap in the Asian archaeological record and refutes the idea that an advanced technique was imported from the West by early modern humans.
The sediments that accumulate beneath seagrass meadows can act as secure vaults for shipwrecks and other precious artefacts, by stopping water and oxygen from damaging the delicate timbers.
Only a small fraction of the data from archaeological fieldwork is made accessible to the public or preserved for future research.
Once Britain slipped away from the Roman Empire in the early 5th century, signs of Roman life began to disappear.
Archaeologists are trash sifters. They use clues preserved in artefacts, plant and animal remains that people threw away or left behind to reconstruct the past.
Nimble-fingered Neanderthals went about their daily business in a similar way to modern humans.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Associate Professor and Director, Flinders Microarchaeology Laboratory, Flinders University
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Curator of Human Evolution., University of Alberta
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Head, Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
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Director, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University
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Professor of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Bournemouth University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
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Professor, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), University of Wollongong
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Professor, Southern Cross University
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Claire Smith is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
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Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Postdoctoral researcher, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH)
