Dingo descendants unveiled
For the first time clear links between fossils of the iconic Australian dingo, and dogs from East Asia and New Guinea have been discovered.
Tag: archaeology
Nature & Wildlife
Ancient stone tools uncovered on Norfolk Island by Australian archaeologists will rewrite history
In a find of international significance, on Norfolk Island, 1700km north-east of Sydney, scientists from the Australian Museum and University of Sydney together with a local excavation team this week unearthed axe-like tools thought to have been fashioned by Polynesian mariners hundreds of years ago.
Nature & Wildlife
World first: Muddied mummy reveals new details of ancient practice
Macquarie University researchers have used cutting-edge medical technology to reveal a previously unknown method of preserving Egyptian mummies.
History & Culture
Scientists reveal ancient Aboriginal underwater archaeological sites
Scientists report the first submerged ancient Aboriginal archaeological sites found on the seabed.
History & Culture
65,000-year-old plant remains reveal the diet of the earliest known Aboriginal Australians
Ancient plant remains show the earliest Australians spent plenty of time cooking.
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Lightning Ridge Fossil Dig
Join us for this Australian Geographic Society Scientific Expedition in August 2017.
AustroPalaeo
Busting a botanical myth
The NT’s Palm Valley was long thought to have been a surviving relict of Australia’s prehistoric rainforests, but we now know its trees arrived much more recently with Aboriginal horticulturalists.
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Australia’s oldest ornament found in the Kimberleys
A piece of kangaroo bone discovered in remote north-western Australia 20 years ago is the oldest-known piece of Indigenous Australian jewellery, according to new research.
AustroPalaeo
Rock shelter provides earliest evidence of humans in the outback
Aboriginal people were already living in Australia’s interior 49,000 years ago, according to an incredible series of new archaeological discoveries.
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700,000-year-old Hobbit ancestor discovered
Scientists have unearthed fossils from an extinct human species that predates Homo floresiensis by more than half a million years.