The shipwreck of the Batavia and subsequent murders of 115 men, women and children have inspired many retellings. A new exhibition combines art and science to find new angles on an old tale.
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A rush of ancient DNA projects in Africa has presented the curators of archaeological skeletons with ethical issues because research requires the destruction of human bone.
Archaeologists have a long tradition of taking artists along on their expeditions. A new exhibition in Cyprus aims to revive the practice.
Bringing the past into a digital space creates so much more overt space for interpretation and different narratives.
Latest development in ‘Crete feet’ find serves as a reminder of the challenges facing dig sites.
A new study can’t rule out the possibility that human ancestors lived on Crete at the same time as they evolved in Africa.
Diet and disease leave characteristic marks on our teeth which can reman for millions of years.
Today the phrase ‘all roads leads to Rome’ means that there’s more than one way to reach the same goal. But in Ancient Rome, all roads really did lead to the eternal city, which was at the centre of a vast road network.
A row about whether Roman Britain was ethnically diverse has turned nasty.
We tend to think of archaeological sites as dead silent – empty ruins left by past cultures. But this isn’t how the people who lived in and used these sites would have experienced them.
Excavating the history of migration along the frontier of the Danube.
A team of archaeologists strived to improve the reproducibility of their results, influencing their choices in the field, in the lab and during data analysis.
Homo naledi seems to have enjoyed small, hard foods like nuts.
Sales of antiquities legally excavated are just as ethically problematic as those likely looted.
Explore the hidden origins of one of China’s most significant historic sites.
What we buy has defined who we are since the Gold Rush. In the 1850s and 1860s, people communicated their social status by buying stuff - dinner sets, junk jewellery - and throwing their old things away.
Roman gladiators were unique and complex characters, and certainly not the sporting heroes they’re depicted as in culture today.
The early human ‘Cockney pearly kings and queens’.
Currency first hit the scene thousands of years ago. An anthropologist explains the early origins and uses of money – and how archaeological finds fill in our picture of the past.
A researcher tells the story of how he and his team discovered the oldest Homo Sapiens fossil bones to date in Morocco.
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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 est un·e adhérent·e de 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)
