The Baltic crusades had a long term impact on the local environment – 700 years later, the details of this are clear.
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Modern dating techniques are providing new time frames for indigenous settlements in Northeast North America, free from the Eurocentric bias that previously led to incorrect assumptions.
New technology is helping archaeologists uncover details of the playwright’s home, workplaces and his final resting place.
During the transitional period between the Pleistocene and Holocene epoch, the Earth’s temperature underwent massive change, forcing prehistoric humans in Indonesia to change their diet.
Active learning brings new knowledge to children and to their community.
The DNA of microbes and food trapped in the teeth can reveal information about diet and health.
Archaeologists have long argued over when and how people first domesticated horses. A decade ago, new techniques appeared to have provided answers – but further discoveries change the story again.
An archaeologist tells the story of how she and her colleagues discovered a traditional Irish village, a clachan, in a South Australian field – the first confirmed clachan found outside Ireland.
New modelling techniques shed light on the ancient city of Ugarit and can help plan effective conservation.
An archaeological site in India sheds new light on how ancient humans dispersed from Africa across the world.
Charred plant remains from one of the oldest archaeological sites reveal that the first Australians ate a varied - and sometimes labour-intensive - diet.
Neanderthals living in a cave in southern Siberia made distinctive stone tools that can be traced to their ancestral homeland in eastern Europe — an intercontinental journey of more than 3,000 km.
To understand how much thinking a brain can do, look at how much blood - and therefore how much energy - it uses.
As the last survivors die out, it is more important than ever to uncover physical evidence of Nazi atrocities.
Evidence shows Native Americans in New England lived lightly on the land for thousands of years. It wasn’t until Europeans arrived that the landscape experienced major human impacts.
Ancient frescoes suggest Europe and south Asia had trade links as long as 3,600 years ago.
The charred remains of root vegetables found at Border Cave help us understand how early humans survived and thrived.
The destruction of a country’s historical and cultural heritage sites is a distressing byproduct of conflict, but there are now strategies in place to prevent it happening.
20 years ago, who could predict how much more researchers would know today about the human past – let alone what they could learn from a thimble of dirt, a scrape of dental plaque, or satellites in space.
Our extinct, distant cousins still lived in Indonesia 110,000 years ago.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor and Director, Flinders Microarchaeology Laboratory, Flinders University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
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Assistant Curator of Human Evolution., University of Alberta
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Mathematician and Ancient DNA Researcher, University of Adelaide
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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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Head, Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
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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
