A new study by a Utah anthropologist, based on genetic evidence, concludes that the colonizers of Sahul arrived later than ...
A 19th-century wangim or boomerang has revealed how sophisticated the First Peoples of Australia were as engineers, and how engineering exquisitely interweaves with cultural meaning. A press release ...
Shine a light deep inside Waribruk cave in southeastern Australia and the walls and ceiling sparkle. The spectacle is the result of geological processes spanning millions of years. First, underground ...
Archaeologists are often confronted with sites featuring post-occupation disturbance. At rural sites, this disturbance often comes in the form of agricultural activity, such as ploughing and grazing.
For most of the human history of Australia, sea levels were much lower than they are today, and there was extra dry land where people lived. Archaeologists could only speculate about how people used ...
New archaeological research highlights major blind spots in Australia’s environmental management policies which place submerged Indigenous heritage at risk New archaeological research highlights major ...
Archaeologists have discovered a new style of ancient Australian rock art that features unusual depictions of human and animal figures, seemingly living in harmony. The works from this ancient art ...
Palaeontologists say there is no hard evidence in the fossil record that extinct Australian megafauna were butchered by First ...
The mystery of 1,400-year-old ‘earth rings’ found in Australia has been solved. Located on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country in the suburb of Sunbury, the rings were the subject of a study which was ...
The archaeological deposit of cave site Wee Jasper 99 (WJ99), in the foothills of the Namadgi Ranges, spans an uninterrupted 12,000 years beginning in the terminal Pleistocene. Archaeological patterns ...
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA—BBC News reports that officials in Australia’s federal government have decided to rebury the 42,000-year-old remains of “Mungo Man” and more than 100 other people unearthed between ...
Kangaroos and wallabies mingle with humans, or sit facing forward as if playing the piano. Humans wear headdresses in a variety of styles and are frequently seen holding snakes. These are some of the ...