Armed conflict in Syria has been a disaster for the area's cultural heritage. A displaced archaeologist describes what's being lost.
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A new IPCC report has called for radical changes in food production to avoid catastrophic climate change. Rice-fish farming and mixed crops could help.
Working with bone artefacts from archaeological sites in South Africa's southern Cape region, we've been able to show that some implements might have been used for sound production in the past.
Stone Age people in Egypt showed great respect for their dead, providing a glimpse of what was to come in the Dynastic period.
The World Heritage Listing for Victoria's Budj Bim fish traps was ground-breaking. Here are five other Australian Indigenous sites that also deserve greater attention.
New research suggests humans spread to Europe at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought.
A decade-long project to excavate a sod house from half a millennium ago has yielded nearly 100,000 artefacts.
Grisly war trophies made from the heads of vanquished enemies certainly grab attention. But archaeologists are more interested in what they may tell about a tumultuous time of shifting political power.
Many tourists hold an outdated romanticized image of an abandoned temple emerging from the jungle. But research around Angkor Wat suggests its collapse might be better described as a transformation.
Pastoralism is a central part of many Africans' identity. But how and when did this way of life get started on the continent? Ancient DNA can reveal how herding populations spread.
Ennigaldi-Nanna is largely unknown in the modern day. But in 530BC, this Mesopotamian priestess worked to arrange and label various artefacts in the world's first museum.
Many people think climate change caused Classic Maya civilization to collapse abruptly around 900 A.D. An archaeologist says that view is too simplistic and misses the bigger point.
According to a new study, a small portion of a site can yield thousands of objects, adding up to millions of dollars.
A Neanderthal tooth was discovered in Serbia. This finding helps to fill gaps in the human fossil record of this important geographical region.
Researchers can more easily compare heated rocks from different studies and areas.
It has often been assumed that Australia was essentially isolated until 1788. But research into the seagoing trade on the south coast of Papua New Guinea suggests otherwise.
Reports say that a new species of ancient human has been identified in a cave in The Philippines. But only a few bone and teeth fossil fragments have been found, so far.
Teeth covered in pits were common in the 2m-year-old species Paranthropus robustus.
A swift response from the heritage community prevented damage to sites of national heritage.
The Viking Age but not as you know it.
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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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Education Manager, Sydney University Museums, University of Sydney
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Professor of Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
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Research associate, Newcastle University
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Professor in Archaeology, University of Bristol
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PhD Candidate in Biological Anthropology, Liverpool John Moores University
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Alice Gorman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Tom Austen Brown Professor of Australian Archaeology, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate, Archaeology, Flinders University
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Research Associate in Archaeology, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer in Archaeology & Heritage, Department of History, Politics and Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Bournemouth University
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Wood Jones Professor of Anthropological and Comparative Anatomy, University of Adelaide
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PhD; Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Bradford
