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In the shadow of the pyramids of Giza, lie the tombs of the courtiers and officials who built these vast structures.
Academics from different disciplines come Head to Head in this series to tackle topical debates.
Archaeological research at Christiansborg Castle in Ghana has provided an in-depth understanding of Danish, Ga and Danish-Ga lived experiences during the eighteenth century transatlantic slave trade.
A fresh look at museum artifacts fills in a gap in the Asian archaeological record and refutes the idea that an advanced technique was imported from the West by early modern humans.
The sediments that accumulate beneath seagrass meadows can act as secure vaults for shipwrecks and other precious artefacts, by stopping water and oxygen from damaging the delicate timbers.
Only a small fraction of the data from archaeological fieldwork is made accessible to the public or preserved for future research.
Once Britain slipped away from the Roman Empire in the early 5th century, signs of Roman life began to disappear.
Archaeologists are trash sifters. They use clues preserved in artefacts, plant and animal remains that people threw away or left behind to reconstruct the past.
Nimble-fingered Neanderthals went about their daily business in a similar way to modern humans.
As the first European seafaring vessel to reach the east coast of Australia, the Endeavour – much like James Cook himself – has become part of Australia’s national mythology.
For 60 years, native police were deployed in Queensland to 'disperse' Aboriginal communities (a euphemism for systematic killing). Unearthing their camps is a key part of reckoning with the violence of those times.
A lesser known aspect of bogs is their remarkable potential to preserve both environmental and archaeological records.
A hot summer reveals hidden history beneath the dried-out fields - but only when seen from the air.
In remote Northern Territory, most Aboriginal people have been buried in unmarked graves. Archaelogists are carrying out painstaking detective work to help communities find their loved ones' remains.
How did civilization emerge from small groups of hunter-gatherers? Some archaeologists focus on cooperation as the vital ingredient – and find evidence for it in the form of feast-related artifacts.
Excavations on the site of Rome's greatest natural disaster can tell us a lot about attitudes to death.
Neanderthals used spears as hunting weapons by throwing or thrusting, according to a new study.
New research has rubbished perceptions of Roman Britain as a region inhabited solely by white Europeans.
How 4,000-year-old papyrus letters prompted the queen of crime fiction to write Death Comes as the End.
Top contributors
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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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Research associate, Newcastle 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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Professor of Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
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Professor in Archaeology, University of Bristol
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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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Sessional Lecturer in Anthropology, Liverpool John Moores 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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PhD Candidate, Archaeology, Flinders University
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Research Associate in Archaeology, Flinders University
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Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Bradford
