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A small child buried almost 80,000 years ago in a cave in Kenya shows how ancient humans treated the dead.
Combining evidence from archaeology, geochronology and paleoenvironmental science, researchers identified how ancient humans by Lake Malawi were the first to substantially modify their environment.
It was the site of historic gatherings, such as a four-day initiation ceremony for young men. Then colonial authorities quashed such practices. The place was lost for more than a century, until now.
It’s possible that low oxygen levels in caves produced hallucinations – but that doesn’t explain the majority of prehistoric art.
Practicing Islam was banned in Spain after the Catholic conquest but recent discoveries prove that Muslims continued eating traditions in secret.
We studied hundreds of British legal documents and found most were made from sheepskin, which is harder to tamper with than other animal skins.
Laboratory experiments with bat poo reveal how archaeological materials in tropical caves have been chemically altered over the millennia.
Stone-walled structures such as Driefontein often store information that’s not written down and are the only remaining resources to help understand local histories.
Research into the bodies of victims of the Vesuvius eruption show how pyroclastic flows affect the human body.
Proposed legislation would identify and protect African American cemeteries. But it wouldn’t cover the remains of thousands of Black people in museum collections.
Undersea shell middens contain important clues about the past - what people ate, who they were interacting with and how the climate was changing. Now we have a better way to detect and excavate them.
What’s fascinating about the latest Dead Sea Scrolls discovery is how it reflects the stories of those who wrote the ancient texts, those who kept them safe and the archaeologists who found them.
A Viking hoard of silver coins and jewellery expands our understanding of French history.
Plus, new discoveries about early humans in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge. Listen to episode 5 of The Conversation Weekly podcast.
CT scans of the mummy revealed new injuries.
A remarkable set of discoveries has confirmed that parts of Stonehenge first stood 140 miles away at Waun Mawn, west Wales.
In 2014, reports of a new discovery of Sappho’s poems were remarkable. New research argues the papyrus had a fabricated backstory.
The Digs’ archaeologists are closer to reality than the intrepid Indiana Jones, and that’s refreshing.
Two starkly different research projects at East Gippsland’s Cloggs Cave, 50 years apart, show the importance of Indigenous perspectives in archaeology.
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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)
