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Africa has always contributed to global technological breakthroughs and economic systems.
New research claiming indigenous Americans traveled to Polynesia is sensational, but the science is flawed and ignores other evidence.
Archaeologists reveal two-kilometre ring of pits around the neolithic Durrington Walls by studying old geophysical surveys.
New research suggests ancient climate change shaped the fate of western civilisation.
Archaeologists working with museums in Iraq have protected more than 270,000 artefacts using SmartWater liquid technology.
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.
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.
The ancient bone arrowheads are the oldest ever found outside Africa, and show how humans adapted to a new environment.
We found footprints that measure around 24 centimetres long. We suspect they came from animals with legs the same height as humans.
An Aboriginal tree on Wiradjuri Country is much younger than anybody thought.
You can’t own a human, so why can you own their remains? We need to stop treating human fossils as objects.
A recent ruling allowing a new expedition to the Titanic wreck gives the go ahead to commercial exploitation.
There are some moves towards recognising and redressing archaeology’s colonial history.
The plants a Roman chose could say a lot about the person they were.
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.
Without a clear framework within which decisions can be made, heritage resources will forever be threatened by development.
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.
Archaeologists have long studied diseases in past populations. They’ve explored the evolution of pathogens and how they interacted with humans.
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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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)
