Really sad to hear of the passing of Sally McBrearty. Her work at Kapthurin in Kenya set a standard for our understanding of the Acheulian to MSA transition that our team at Amanzi Springs hope to emulate in South Africa

Curious where archaeology could take you? Come down to our La Trobe University Open Day today to find out more! Our staff and students will be here until 4pm today to tell you all about our courses and study options, from fully online to covered in mud, we've got an option for you

Please join our LTU Arch Seminar at 3:)0pm (AEST) Thurs 10th August for Dr. Caiti D'Gluyas (University of New England) on ‘From Juvenile Delinquent to Colonial Worker: Point Puer as a Liminal Landscape of Colonialism ’ Register at latrobe.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Check out Natasha Nagle's fantastic entry for the 2023 'Visualise Your Thesis' competition! youtube.com/watch?v=CCjCC1… Natasha is in the 1st year of her PhD studies in the La Trobe Archaeology program, and you can vote for her entry here: latrobe.edu.au/library/resear…

Please join our LTU Arch Seminar at 8:30pm (AEST) Thurs 17th August for Dr. Michael Spate (La Trobe) on ‘Holocene environment, climate change and human adaptation in the Central Asian mountains ’. Register at latrobe.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

~2 million year old juvenile Paranthropus robustus fossil found on the @ltuarchaeology @ujpalaeo Drimolen Palaeoanthropology Field School in 2023. You can see a still developing adult tooth in its crypt. #Ontogeny #fossilfriday

One of 4 papers I just had published in the Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa edited by Dr. Jayne Wilkins, this one on the 'Acheulian hominin bearing site of Cornelia-Uitzoek in the Free state of South Africa' link.springer.com/chapter/10.100… La Trobe University Archaeology La Trobe University UJ Palaeo-Research Institute

One of 4 papers I just had published in the Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa edited by Dr. Jayne Wilkins, this one on the MSA to LSA site of Erfkroon in the Free State of South Africa. La Trobe University Archaeology UJ Palaeo-Research Institute La Trobe University link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

One of 4 papers I just had published in the Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa edited by Dr. Jayne Wilkins, this one on the Amanzi Springs Acheulian to Middle Stone Age site in South Africa. La Trobe University Archaeology UJ Palaeo-Research Institute La Trobe University link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

One of 4 papers I just had published in the Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa edited by Dr. Jayne Wilkins, this one on the Oldowan to Acheulian bearing Kilombe Volcano sequence in Kenya. La Trobe University Archaeology UJ Palaeo-Research Institute La Trobe University link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

Please join our LTU Archaelogy Seminar 3:00pm (AEST) Thurs 31st of August for Dr. Shalini Sharma (Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research) on ‘Agricultural strategies, resilience and intracontinental connections during the Indus era ’. Register at latrobe.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Please join our LTU Archaelogy Seminar 3:00pm (AEST) Thurs 14th of September for Prof. Tiatoshi Jamir (Nagaland University) on early agriculture in northeast India. Register at latrobe.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Please join our LTU Archaelogy Seminar 3:00pm (AEST) Thurs 21st of September for Dr. Ashleigh Rogers (Monash University) on anthropogenic landscape change and coastal resource use in Late Holocene Hawaii . Register at latrobe.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Congrats to LTU Arch. PhD Natasha Nagle, winning ‘best intersectional paper’ for “Exploration of the Damya Formation and its environmental effects on terminal Pleistocene Natufian archaeological sites in the Northeastern Jordan Valley”, at the Nat. Arch. Student Con, UMelb 2023!

Please join our LTU Archaelogy Seminar 8:30pm (AEST) Thurs 28th of September for Dr. Georgia Stannard (La Trobe) on archaeology and the Australian curriculum. Register at latrobe.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

A new PhD Scholarship opportunity studying the Arabian Palaeolithic, closing date 31st Oct for Domestic students, 30th Sept for International - find out more here: latrobe.edu.au/research/gradu…

Please join our Zoom info session on La Trobe Uni’s Bachelor of Archaeology Honours & PG coursework degrees at 1pm, Thurs 5 October. External students welcome. Both degrees lead to a career in Heritage and Archaeology: latrobe.zoom.us/j/82534243421

Please join our LTU Archaelogy Seminar 3pm (AEDT) Thurs 5th of October for Dr. Angeline Leece (LTU/Southern Cross) on recent fieldwork in South Africa. Register at: latrobe.zoom.us/webinar/regist…