The discovery of thousands of stone artefacts and animal bones in a deep cave in #Timor Island has led archaeologists from ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Flinders University and CABAH to reassess the route that early humans took to reach Australia. scimex.org/newsfeed/excav…

The latest discoveries from Laili, Timor-Leste with some wonderful multi-discplanary and multi-institutional collaboration by our team from CABAH ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Flinders Archaeology UCL Institute of Archaeology UOW Archaeology 国立民族学博物館 & Musée de l'Homme

Researchers have gleaned new insights into the environmental conditions that influenced how early humans migrated across northern Eurasia and the Americas beyond Africa: bit.ly/4ch14Z5 Frédérik Saltré ConservationBytes Bastien Llamas Global Ecology Flinders University Uni of Adelaide

An incredible week at the Queensland Museum Kurilpa in Meanjin with Kaiadilt and Lardil artists celebrating the launch of the extraordinary artwork Ngurruwarra/Derndernyin: Stone Fishtraps of the Wellesley Islands on exhibition until 24 November. CABAH James Cook Uni museum.qld.gov.au/kurilpa/whats-…

During May, 10 new records from the Indo-Pacific region were uploaded to Neotoma Database , a record monthly total! The total number of records uploaded in 2024 is 29, a record yearly total! To add your sites to this growing list, contact me or another Steward. ANU CHL CABAH

Congrats, Ariana!

brilliant show featuring some stellar scientists (personally loved the sediment coring... Haidee Cadd). So good.

Research published in Nature Human Behaviour by GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation, Monash University and CABAH shares evidence of 12,000 years of knowledge transfer. bit.ly/4eMgeXZ

Some great coverage by the SBS podcast on our latest discovery of occupation on the Tanimbar islands at least 42,000 years ago. ANU CHL ANU College of Asia and the Pacific CABAH BRIN Indonesia

Do you like #phytoliths or are interested in their application in #palaeoecological studies in Australia? Then you're in luck with not one, but TWO new papers by Kelsey Boyd on Australian pytoliths CABAH UOW Archaeology GeoQuEST Research Centre doi.org/10.1016/j.revp… doi.org/10.1016/j.revp…

Open access! Our latest publication on the stone boat structure in Tanimbar Islands. Supported by ANU CHL BRIN Indonesia CABAH Download here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Bereline Loogatha from MIArt and I talk about the extraordinary stone-walled intertidal fishtraps of the Wellesley Island Region on ABC Australia Radio National PM program. abc.net.au/listen/program…

Great to see so many new sites from the Indo-Pacific region being added to Neotoma Database (and that I'm the 3rd most prolific uploader)! ANU CHL AQUA CABAH open.neotomadb.org/NeotomaSummary…