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Recent News
Smallest arm bone in human fossil record sheds light on the dawn of Homo...
07 Aug 2024
Discovery of rare early human fossils from Indonesia further unravels mystery of...
Study reveals 2,700yo cauldrons used for blood collectionÂ
06 Jun 2024
Mongolian vessels used for ancient food production and milk preservation.
Excavation reveals ancient migration to Timor IslandÂ
22 May 2024
Researchers say Timor islands likely a gateway crossing to Australia for ancient humans.
Revised dating of the Liujiang skeleton renews understanding of human...
01 May 2024
Scientific dating shaves nearly 200,000 years off famous Chinese skeleton age.
Quarternary Palaeontology and Archaeology of Sumatra - Available now
Quarternary Palaeontology and Archaeology of Sumatra, a new book co-edited by ARCHE's Prof Julien Louys, is now available from ANU Press.
Recent Conversation Articles
- Diving through time
- First evidence of ancient human occupation found in giant lava tube cave in Saudi Arabia
- 3D scanning: we recreated a sacred South African site in a way that captures its spirit
- People once lived in a vast region in north-western Australia – and it had an inland sea
- Our mapping project shows how extensive frontier violence was in Queensland. This is why truth-telling matters
- Bringing a shark to a knife fight: 7,000-year-old shark-tooth knives discovered in Indonesia
- New path for early human migrations through a once-lush Arabia contradicts a single ‘out of Africa’ origin
- Stone Age herders transported heavy rock tools to grind animal bones, plants and pigment
- This cave on Borneo has been used for 20,000 years – and we’ve now dated rock art showing colonial resistance 400 years ago
- Major new research claims smaller-brained Homo naledi made rock art and buried the dead. But the evidence is lacking
- Who owned this Stone Age jewellery? New forensic tools offer an unprecedented answer
- Returning a name to an artist: the work of Majumbu, a previously unknown Australian painter
- Rituals have been crucial for humans throughout history – and we still need them
- World’s earliest evidence of a successful surgical amputation found in 31,000-year-old grave in Borneo
- Mysterious marks on boomerangs reveal a ‘forgotten’ use of this iconic Aboriginal multi-tool
- Revelations from 17-million-year-old ape teeth could lead to new insights on early human evolution
- Paddy Compass Namadbara: for the first time, we can name an artist who created bark paintings in Arnhem Land in the 1910s
- Friday essay:‘this is our library’–how to read the amazing archive of First Nations stories written on rock
- Research reveals humans ventured out of Africa repeatedly as early as 400,000 years ago, to visit the rolling grasslands of Arabia
- Who were the Toaleans? Ancient woman’s DNA provides first evidence for the origin of a mysterious lost culture
- Aboriginal art on a car? How an Indigenous artist and an adventurer met in the 1930 wet season in Kakadu
- Homo who? A new mystery human species has been discovered in Israel
- Threat or trading partner? Sailing vessels in northwestern Arnhem Land rock art reveal different attitudes to visitors
- Humans weren’t to blame for the extinction of prehistoric island-dwelling animals
- How climate change is erasing the world’s oldest rock art
- ‘Our dad’s painting is hiding, in secret place’: how Aboriginal rock art can live on even when gone
- Teeth contain detailed records of lead contamination in humans and other primates
- Ancient eggshells and a hoard of crystals reveal early human innovation and ritual in the Kalahari
- We found the oldest known cave painting of animals in a secret Indonesian valley
- It was growing rainforests, not humans, that killed off Southeast Asia’s giant hyenas and other megafauna
- Got your bag? The critical place of mobile containers in human evolution
- Meet the giant wombat relative that scratched out a living in Australia 25 million years ago
- 48,000-year-old arrowheads reveal early human innovation in the Sri Lankan rainforest
- Singing away the coronavirus blues: making music in a time of crisis reminds us we belong
- First pocket-sized artworks from Ice Age Indonesia show humanity’s ancient drive to decorate
- Baby steps: this ancient skull is helping us trace the path that led to modern childhood
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