Anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens, AMH) began spreading across Eurasia from
Africa and adjacent Southwest Asia about 50,000–55,000 years ago (ca. 50–55 ka). Some …

Worldwide, environmental conservation directives are mandating greater inclusion of
Indigenous people and their knowledge in the management of global ecosystems …

The time of arrival of people in Australia is an unresolved question. It is relevant to debates
about when modern humans first dispersed out of Africa and when their descendants …

Archaeologists have long been puzzled by the appearance in Europe∼ 40–35 thousand
years (kyr) ago of a rich corpus of sophisticated artworks, including parietal art (that is …

ABSTRACT Stories belonging to Australian Aboriginal groups tell of a time when the former
coastline of mainland Australia was inundated by rising sea level. Stories are presented …

Aboriginal Australians represent one of the longest continuous cultural complexes known.
Archaeological evidence indicates that Australia and New Guinea were initially settled …

Australia's oldest human remains, found at Lake Mungo, include the world's oldest ritual
ochre burial (Mungo III) and the first recorded cremation (Mungo I). Until now, the importance …

In the last 30 years, from 1967 to 1997, the use of luminescence signals from naturally
occurring minerals has gone though a major metamorphosis, from thermoluminescence (TL) …

Archeology and the Evolution of Human Behavior Page 1 ARTICLES Archeology and the
Evolution of Human Behavior RICHARD G. KLEIN Human paleontology and Paleolithic …

Of the forty mammal species known to have vanished in the world in the last 200 years,
almost half have been Australian. Our continent has the worst record of mammal extinctions …