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.
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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.
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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.
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Archaeologists open lid on ‘Plain of Jars’ mystery
A major archaeological excavation in Laos’s mysterious ‘Plain of Jars’ has unearthed an ancient burial ground dating back 2000 years.
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‘Hobbits’ extinct much earlier than first thought
A tiny human species discovered in 2003 may have been extinct for much longer than previously thought.
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Ancestral remains returned to Kimberley traditional owners
The stolen remains of three Bardi Jawi people have been returned to their traditional lands in an emotional ceremony in Western Australia.
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Origins of sex reveal that fish did it sideways
Scientists identify the earliest instance of sexual reproduction in vertebrates.