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Aboriginal Australians have effectively been on their country for as long as modern human populations have been outside of Africa. We have a limit as to how long ago that was: around 50,000 years.
Neanderthals used spears as hunting weapons by throwing or thrusting, according to a new study.
Figurative art may derive from Neanderthal hand prints and the hunter's keen eye for perceiving animals.
It's time we changed our stereotype of the brutish, thuggish Neanderthals, and instead start viewing them with the respect they really deserve.
New tools add to an emerging view of the past as a turbulent “Game of Thrones” style scenario, with distinct early human ancestors living in Eurasia before Homo sapiens arrived.
Neanderthals, rather than modern humans, created the world's oldest cave paintings.
The first British people were black – and other interesting findings made possible by genomic sequencing.
New discoveries are changing archaeologists' ideas about the origins of our own species and our migration out of Africa. This fossil pushes Homo sapiens' African exodus date back by 50,000 years.
Ritual feasting emerged around the time humans were beginning to farm. It came to play an important role in societal bonding, much as it does today.
Rather than castigate those who deny evolution, it is more useful to consider their arguments to help science explain it better
Diet and disease leave characteristic marks on our teeth which can reman for millions of years.
The early human 'Cockney pearly kings and queens'.
How do scientists figure out when evolutionary events – like species splitting away from a common ancestor – happened? It turns out our DNA is a kind of molecular clock, keeping time via genetic changes.
A new study estimates the nutritional value of human flesh and challenges the belief that prehistoric humans engaged in cannibalism just to fill their stomachs.
Neanderthals had a very varied diet based on what foods were available to them where they lived. They also knew what to eat when they were sick.
The way early humans learned to handle food could explain why the majority of people today are right handed.
Excavations have shown that early humans were frequent visitors to the same coastal area over tens of thousands of years.
The two species mated 500,000 years ago, leaving a genetic mark to this day. This knowledge could help save them from extinction.
New research into how early humans spread across the world settles several long-running debates.
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Associate Professor and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of New South Wales, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor, School of Humanities, University of New England
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Research Fellow in Translational Genomics, University of Oxford
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Director, Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, University of Adelaide
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ARC Future Fellow, University of Adelaide
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Tom Austen Brown Professor of Australian Archaeology, University of Sydney
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Professor of Bioanthropology, Australian National University
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Research Officer, Radiocarbon Facility, Australian National University
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Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW
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