Nasty, brutish – but not necessarily short. Here’s how archaeologists know plenty of people didn’t die young.
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A change in climate may have triggered the decline and collapse of the Mayan city of Mayapán in the 15th century.
The idea that Europeans brought new diseases to the Americas and returned home with others has been widely accepted. But evidence is mounting that for syphilis this scenario is wrong.
The Earth has had at least five major ice ages, and humans showed up in time for the most recent one. In fact, we’re still in it.
Why did the chicken cross the globe? A new study has revealed how chickens were domesticated.
Shared designs for stone tools across southern Africa show early humans had wide social connections before beginning to migrate to the rest of the world.
Around 200,000 years ago, people were living who were as intelligent as us.
New research on the Crystal Palace dinosaurs is uncovering truths about these famous Victorian sculptures
The mysterious Denisovans left DNA traces in populations across Southeast Asia and Australasia, but until now no physical signs of their presence outside Eurasia had been found.
A team of US archaeologists have revealed cave art almost 2,000 years old.
Ukrainian families’ anguish at not being able to bury their loved ones underscores a deep human need, an anthropologist writes.
The preparation of ancient meals in prehistoric West Africa combined vegetables, pulses, tubers and, possibly, herbs and spices.
Promoting and practicing ethical research that includes the people who live in the area today is as important to the archaeological team as learning more about the lives of the ancient inhabitants.
Human waste created the landscape for a medieval Indian Ocean trading port and may eventually have led to its demise.
Scientists have uncovered Roman farms beneath what was thought to be prehistoric forest in France.
A new study doubles the age of ancient DNA in sub-Saharan Africa, revealing how people moved, mingled and had children together over the last 50,000 years.
Winner of the Olive Schreiner Prize, What Happens was inspired by the discovery of a slave burial site.
Stone artifacts and a fossil tooth point to Homo sapiens living at Grotte Mandrin 54,000 years ago, at a time when Neanderthals were still living in Europe.
The objects buried with people provide important clues about their lives.
I have worked on many shipwreck investigations and have been involved in the discovery of a couple of shipwreck sites of this period. Here’s what’s usually involved in identifying a ship.
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Head, Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
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Professor of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Bournemouth University
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Assistant Curator of Human Evolution., University of Alberta
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Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), University of Wollongong
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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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Research associate, Newcastle University
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Professor in Archaeology, University of Bristol
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Postdoctoral researcher & teaching assistant, London South Bank University
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Associate Professor, Flinders University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
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Tom Austen Brown Professor of Australian Archaeology, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate, Archaeology, Flinders University
