Australia Archive
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AncientPages.com - In May 2020, as part of a legally permitted expansion of an iron ore mine, Rio Tinto destroyed an ancient rockshelter at Juukan Gorge in Puutu Kunti Kurrama
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The discovery of a prehistoric "giant goose" skull in Australia sheds light on an extraordinary extinct species. This fossil belongs to the Genyornis
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The recent discovery of thousands of stone artifacts and animal bones in a deep cave on Timor Island has prompted archaeologists to reevaluate the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New research conducted by the University of Sydney provides valuable insights into the migration patterns of the First Peoples of Australia and New
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating on Jiigurru/Lizard Island off the Queensland coast have unearthed the oldest pottery ever found in Australia. The find is highly significant
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Earth Changes
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Some already call it Australia's lost Atlantis, but it is not quite the mythical underwater city Plato mentions. A large underwater site that
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - Rock art is one of the most intriguing records of the human past – it directly represents how our ancestors viewed their world. This provides a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In a landmark collaboration between Wiradjuri people, NSW State government and archaeologists, new research has revealed the deep-time hidden story of Wiradjuri carved
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It's said that a dog is a man's best friend, but the wild dingo is much maligned in Australia. This may not always
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Found at McGraths Flat, NSW, a fossil site known for its iron-rich rock called "goethite," the new genus of spider is the first ever spider fossil of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) and non-profit Silentworld Foundation have continued ongoing archaeological investigation of the wreck of South Australian, with recent
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In 1970, Lardil man Goobalathaldin (or Dick Roughsey) completed his autobiography "Moon and Rainbow" in which he recounted his ancestors' stories. Among them
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A number of sophisticated non-invasive nuclear and accelerator techniques were used to provide information about the origin and age of an Australian Aboriginal
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The new discovery of ancient stone artifacts at an underwater spring off the Western Australia Pilbara coast has confirmed the location is a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists at Flinders University have identified rare images of Moluccan vessels from Indonesia's eastern islands in rock art paintings that may provide the
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – One of Australia's first long-distance walkers has been described after Flinders University paleontologists used advanced 3D scans and other technology to take
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers have confirmed that 107-million-year-old pterosaur bones discovered more than 30 years ago are the oldest of their kind ever
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Fairy circles – barren patches which make polka-dot patterns in dry and desert areas – were first described by scientists in Namibia in
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - When the eminent Australian anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner first published his essay on “The Dreaming” in 1956, there was increasing scholarly and popular interest in the complexity
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A fascinating quest to discover the identity of a prolific early-20th-century Indigenous painter has led a Griffith directed research team to the top
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New research has revealed that the process of 'peopling' the entire continent of Sahul—the combined mega continent that joined Australia with New Guinea
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New archaeological techniques have uncovered the origins of 13 early South Australian colonists buried in unmarked graves in the Anglican Parish of St
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study from The University of Western Australia has challenged earlier claims that Aboriginal stone artifacts discovered off the Pilbara coast in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Proteins extracted from fragments of prehistoric eggshell found in the Australian sands confirm that the continent's earliest humans consumed the eggs of a
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For the first time in Australia, archaeobotany has been used by researchers from The University of Western Australia to examine charcoal from ancient
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeological excavation on a sacred site in the Pilbara has found proof Aboriginal people lived in the region during the last Ice Age.
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - What many have long waited for has finally happened. Australia's oldest man, the Mungo Man will be returned home and he will receive
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In one of the first studies of its kind, Australian scientists have investigated the health and economic status of a group of migrant
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New research has analyzed a rare collection of non-returning boomerangs from Kinipapa (Cooper Creek), near Innamincka in South Australia's far northeast. The four
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New archeological research highlights major blind spots in Australia's environmental management policies, placing submerged Indigenous heritage at risk. The study area relative to the
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News
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - People who lived in Tasmania about 41,000 years ago witnessed stunning auroras when the Earth’s magnetic field flipped, and for a few
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Our journey takes us to Australia, a beautiful country full of ancient mysteries waiting to be unraveled. Mark Twain once said that Australian history
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - The Gympie Pyramid near the town of Gympie in Queensland, Australia has long been a source of fascination for people from around the world as well
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series, we discussed curious events reported from North America, Belgium in Indonesia. As previously mentioned similar cases of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient civilizations have always been interested in watching the skies. Solar observatories were built world-wide and astronomy played an important role is humans’
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When and where the boomerang was invented is not entirely clear, but archaeological discoveries reveal the object has a very ancient history. It
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Latest archaeological evidence reveals our knowledge of Australian history is far from complete. When did humans first occupy the Australian deserts? This question has been raised once
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A 2,500-year old mummy has been found in an ancient Egyptian coffin that was mistakenly classified as empty 150 years ago. The sarcophagus was one of four
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The mysterious sand mounds in and around Mapoon, in north-eastern Australia have long been a subject of controversy. Are these puzzling mounds natural formations or were they
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ancient sacred texts, precious artifacts, archaeological discoveries, myths, and legends open a window to the past. Sometimes ancient stories may seem to be
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - World’s largest dinosaur footprints have been discovered in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia. Dubbed “Australia’s Jurassic Park”, footprints belonging to 21
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - By studying ancient DNA we can get a good glimpse into the distant past and learn about our ancestors. Scientists have now examined
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