Archaeologists used to dig primarily at sites that were easy to find thanks to obvious visual clues. But technology – and listening to local people – plays a much bigger role now.
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Digging the dirt on the joys of archeology.
For centuries, historians have assumed that 'primitive societies' couldn’t have possibly come up with advanced techniques on their own.
New excavations at an Indonesian cave have pushed back the time the 'hobbits' disappeared to about 50,000 years ago.
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), University of Wollongong
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Researcher, Centre for Archeological Science, University of Wollongong
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Head of Archaeology, University of Salford
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Palaeobiology, University College Cork
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Canada Research Chair in Human Origins, Lakehead University
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Associate Professor of Classics, Brown University
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Assistant Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State University
