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Evidence of hominins butchering huge animals suggests that our human ancestors lived in big social groups.
The age of the oldest known Oldowan stone tools from east Turkana has been pushed back by 700,000 years.
The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters were capable of complex thinking.
The tools reveal how Aboriginal ancestors survived and thrived in the continent’s interior more than 100 years ago.
Heritage is a public good and people should be able to engage with their past.
Stone tools from different sites suggest people long ago were connected over a huge region and shared ideas.
With a little guidance and a lot of practice, even you can make stone tools the way our oldest ancestors did – and learn to recognize the signs of a deliberately made tool.
New research presents evidence of a wet forest environment 150,000 years ago in Côte d'Ivoire.
Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery pushes back the date hominins started living in Europe by 200,000 years.
Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with technology during the Middle Paleolithic era as those in other parts of the world.
By 1.5 million years ago, Homo erectus was able to transfer tool-making skills from stone to bone.
Archaeologists and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people are shedding new light on a series of enigmatic earth rings located in southeastern Australia.
New research provides the foundation for larger, regional-scale analyses of early human adaptive strategies in the Namib Sand Sea, Namibia.
The two human species had many similarities but their communication would have been different.
Barrow Island off the coast of Western Australia holds a unique record of First Nations people. For millennia, they lived on vast plains that are now drowned by the sea.
What could the extinction of Neanderthals tell us about our own species? An archaeologist explains in The Conversation Weekly podcast.
The findings reveal a close association between climatic conditions and early human migrations out of Africa.
A close look at 7,000-year-old grinding stones left in ancient firepits shows wandering herders in northern Saudi Arabia carried heavy tools for working on bones, plants and rocks.
A forensic technique more often used at modern crime scenes identified blood residue from large extinct animals on spearpoints and stone tools used by people who lived in the Carolinas millennia ago.
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Director, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University
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Archéologue et chercheur au CNRS, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France; Université de Toulouse
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Principal Research Associate, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences at the University of Bath, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer, University of Mpumalanga
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Professor of Archaeology, University of Washington
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Adjunct Senior Researcher at Griffith University and La Trobe University, and Ramón y Cajal (Senior) Research Fellow, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH)
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Lecturer of Anthropology and Assistant Director of the Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Laureate Professor in Archaeology, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Palaeolithic Archaeology, University of Southampton
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Professor, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Stone Age Institute and The Center for Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology, Indiana University
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Curator at the Origins Centre Museum, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postgraduate Student in Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor in Earth Sciences, University of Adelaide, University of Wollongong