PNG megafauna abound to 20,000 years ago
A giant kangaroo that once roamed on four legs through remote forests in the Papua New Guinea Highlands may have survived as recently as 20,000 years […]
Greater risk management needed for cultural heritage
The urgent need for institutions to understand and implement Cultural Heritage Disaster Risk Management Plans has been magnified by recent catastrophic fires, cyclones and ongoing floods […]
Tooth unlocks mystery of Denisovans in Asia
What links a finger bone and some fossil teeth found in a cave in the remote Altai Mountains of Siberia to a single tooth found in […]
Green light for Flinders students
Eleven outstanding Flinders University students will receive vital support from this year’s Playford Memorial Trust Scholarship program. Playford Trust scholarships and awards aim to help students […]
Grave health of our pioneer settlers
In one of the first studies of its kind, Australian scientists have investigated the health and economic status of a group of migrant settlers to colonial […]
Out of this world experiment lands in space
A world-first – or solar system-first – archaeological project has this week begun on the International Space Station. Led by archaeologists Associate Professor Alice Gorman from […]
Rich new field for ancient DNA discovery
A new study of soil samples from 13 archaeological sites in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America paves the way for fresh analysis of ancient DNA […]
Climate change challenge to ancient sites
From ancient sites in Eastern Europe and North America to the Philippines, Australia’s oldest Indigenous rock art and “drowning islands” in the Pacific, climate change is […]
Life and culture on the International Space Station
In an out of this world study, space archaeologists are reconstructing life on the International Space Station (ISS) over the past two decades, to better understand […]