Training museum staff in Iraq in how to mark priceless heritage artefacts using SmartWater.
Ali Al-Makhzoomi
Archaeologists working with museums in Iraq have protected more than 270,000 artefacts using SmartWater liquid technology.
Tap O'Noth with its fort enclosure visible at the summit.
Recent excavations reveal that what was once thought to be a Bronze Age fort is actually much younger, and produce evidence of a huge settlement that was home to 4,000 people.
Dead men do tell tales through their physical remains.
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People have lived with infectious disease throughout the millennia, with culture and biology influencing each other. Archaeologists decode the stories told by bones and what accompanies them.
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The ancient bone arrowheads are the oldest ever found outside Africa, and show how humans adapted to a new environment.
Anthony Romilio
We found footprints that measure around 24 centimetres long. We suspect they came from animals with legs the same height as humans.
Caroline Spry
June 10, 2020
Caroline Spry , La Trobe University ; Brian J Armstrong , University of Johannesburg ; Elspeth Hayes , University of Wollongong ; John Allan Webb , La Trobe University ; Kathryn Allen , The University of Melbourne ; Lisa Paton , University of New England ; Quan Hua , Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation , and Richard Law Kelsham Fullagar , University of Wollongong
An Aboriginal tree on Wiradjuri Country is much younger than anybody thought.
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You can’t own a human, so why can you own their remains? We need to stop treating human fossils as objects.
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A recent ruling allowing a new expedition to the Titanic wreck gives the go ahead to commercial exploitation.
More room should be made for archaeologists who do things differently.
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There are some moves towards recognising and redressing archaeology’s colonial history.
Model of Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli, Italy showing the poikilé , the large four-sided portico enclosing a garden with central pool.
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The plants a Roman chose could say a lot about the person they were.
The bone arrowhead (insert) found at Klasies River main site has much to teach us.
Justin Bradfield and Sarah Wurz
The artefact comes from deposits dated to more than 60,000 years ago. It closely resembles thousands of bone arrowheads used by the indigenous San hunter-gatherers from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
The Mapungubwe Golden Rhino is believed to have been made between 1220 and 1290.
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Without a clear framework within which decisions can be made, heritage resources will forever be threatened by development.
Footprints, preserved in solidified ash, hint at human behavior from as long as 19,000 years ago.
Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce
The footprints of over 20 different prehistoric people, pressed into volcanic ash thousands of years ago in Tanzania, show possible evidence for sexual division of labor in this ancient community.
Studying ancient African societies, like Great Zimbabwe, can reveal how communities dealt with disease and pandemics.
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Archaeologists have long studied diseases in past populations. They’ve explored the evolution of pathogens and how they interacted with humans.
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The Baltic crusades had a long term impact on the local environment – 700 years later, the details of this are clear.
For centuries, indigenous history has been largely told through a European lens.
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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.
Waxwork of Shakespeare by Madame Tussauds in Berlin.
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New technology is helping archaeologists uncover details of the playwright’s home, workplaces and his final resting place.
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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.
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Active learning brings new knowledge to children and to their community.
A photograph of a baboon mummy from the Lyon collection.
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The DNA of microbes and food trapped in the teeth can reveal information about diet and health.