Recovering well-preserved vertebrate remains from underwater caves has provided critical insights into archaeological and palaeontological records worldwide. However, understanding how bone assemblage...

Sumatra occupies a pivotal yet understudied position in Southeast Asian biogeography, shaped by tectonic evolution, Quaternary sea-level fluctuations,…

A long campaign to improve Australia’s sclerotic research bureaucracy has culminated in an extraordinary blowout to grant approval times, leaving scientists despondent.

Scientific Reports - The Natufian Epipalaeolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic in the desert of northern Arabia

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Tooth enamel preserves endogenous amino acids for over 40 million years, representing a robust and underexplored archive for deep-time biomolecular research and enabling future paleoproteomic and isot...

Researchers brace for renewed funding uncertainty as security checks prove ‘more time-consuming than imagined’

Using food residues on pottery vessels and dental calculus, and faunal remains, Casanova et al. find evidence that Neolithic communities in Iran were milking goats or sheep as early as the seventh mil...

As the United States and Russia signal a return to nuclear testing, Australia’s remote monitoring station plays a crucial role in global verification.

Stone tools illustrate behavioural complexities in Middle Pleistocene hominin populations. Here, the authors present small dimensional flakes and hafted tools from Xigou, central China, dated to ~160–72 thousand years ago that demonstrate early, complex technological advancements.

In the last decades, archaeology has witnessed a significant increase in the use of biomolecular analyses to study a variety of materials, including s…

Between 2018 and 2021, the Identification and Documentation of Immovable Heritage Assets (IDIHA) Project recorded over 19,000 rock art panels in the AlUla (al-‘Ulā) region of north-western Saudi Arab...

Naturally mummified cheetah remains in a Saudi Arabian cave system with radiocarbon-calibrated ages between about 4,200 and 100 years cluster with Asian as well as West-African sub-species, with impli...

Paleoanthropological interpretations have traditionally emphasized Homo erectus sensu stricto as the first hominin species to expand out of Africa dur…

Abstract. The Pleistocene and early Holocene archaeological records of the New Guinea are sparse and poorly understood, yet are hugely relevant for underst

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The climate history of the major dryland zones of the world, such as the Saharo–Arabian Desert belt, plays a key role in the dispersal of early humans through these intermittently inhospitable region...

Scientific Reports - Optimizing ancient DNA recovery from archaeological plant seeds

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Abstract. Ancient DNA extracted from the sediments of archaeological sites (sedaDNA) can provide fine-grained information about the composition of past eco

Genome data provide support for the first settlement of Australia and New Guinea via at least two routes by 60,000 years ago.

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“Decay continues” as Australian Research Council’s Decra scheme announces 13.1 per cent success rate

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