Our two-million-year-old ancestors continually breastfed infants from birth until they were about one year old, an analysis of teeth has revealed. Led by Southern Cross University and Monash University, the international team behind the study looked at teeth from Australopithecus ...

In 1699, William Dampier, an Englishman, collected shells and plants from the beaches of the rugged west coast of Australia. These were shipped back to England and ultimately displayed at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum and the British Museum in London. These ...

Dr Mick Morrison was a lonely archaeology PhD student in Cape York in far north Australia when he adopted blogging as a platform in 2004. Eight years on, the Flinders University academic wishes it was something more of his colleagues ...