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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Niche construction theory concerns the modification of environments by all organisms, and gives a new perspective on zooarchaeological records in southwest Australia. Aboriginal people in this region ...
On the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia, there is a series of large rings which rise mysteriously out of hills. These "earth rings," located on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country in the suburb of Sunbury ...
A first-ever biomechanics study of two First Nations weapons systems has identified the design features that make them so formidable. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
Archaeology in Oceania : themes and issues / Ian Lilley -- Revisiting the past : changing interpretations of Pleistocene settlement subsistence and demography in Northern Australia / Sue O'Connor and ...
Humans used the now-destroyed rockshelter throughout the last ice age until just a few decades ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...
CANBERRA, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Australian archaeologists uncovered the earliest known mummification, "smoke-drying" burials in Southeast Asia, dating back more than 10,000 years, far predating ...