Northeast Africa and Southwest Asia present a rich record of hominin occupations between ca. 100 and 50 thousand years ago (ka) at a critical biogeogr…

The signing of a research contract between Banaras Hindu University and Griffith University marks a major step toward strengthening global research on human evolution. BHU is now a core partner ...

Professor Chris Clarkson to lead research into Australia’s early history, strengthen Indigenous partnerships, and train future researchers.

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held assumption about stone tool use.

Discover how recent studies reveal that Saudi Arabia's arid deserts were once lush landscapes filled with rivers and lakes. Explore the implications for environmental restoration and human history und...

New fossils unearthed in Morocco could help solve the mystery of how Homo sapiens diverged from other ancient humans like Neanderthals.

Griffith University has been awarded the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transforming Human Origins Research, one of only eight Centres of Excellence

Transforming Human Origins Research Centre of Excellence to reframe the study of our species globally.

Knowledge about environmental change and the evolutionary history of hominins in Arabia has been rapidly developing over the last two decades. Interdisciplinary research on humans and environments acr...

Dive into Deep Time, an immersive story of the knowledge, art and ingenuity of Australia’s First Nations peoples — told like never before.

The first set of ancient hand fossils from an ape-like cousin of humans discovered in Kenya suggest a number of species were capable of making tools 1.5 million years ago.

Archeology; Biochemistry; Ecological biochemistry; Paleobiochemistry

A rock art tradition of life-sized, naturalistic engravings of camels in Northern Arabia: new insights on the mobility of Neolithic populations in the Nafud Desert - Volume 96 Issue 389

Hunter-gatherers may have used the engravings to find water 12,000 years ago

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The large, naturalistic engravings are a striking symbol for survival in the desert.

Hunter-gatherers may have used the engravings to find water 12,000 years ago

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday."It sug...

Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences - The Acheulean technocomplex is a milestone in the evolutionary adaptability, technological development, and dispersal of Homo erectus. While the...

Recent advancements in biomolecular archaeology, such as stable isotope and ancient DNA research, have expanded our understanding of megafauna extinction pro...

Lithic miniaturization is a key adaptive and technological feature of human populations and one of the key cultural hallmarks in the Late Pleistocene of Eastern Asia. In northern China this form of st...

Unemployed researchers face some tough career choices as they flood the job market after the Trump administration’s cuts to science.

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Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

In mammals, documented female dominance is rare, but females can hold high status even with male-biased dimorphism. In wild living bonobo groups, female coalition formation best explains the observed ...

Abstract. Understanding the nature and tempo of global environmental responses to the ∼74,000 BP (∼74 ka) Toba volcanic super-eruption is based primarily o