Mongolian vessels used for ancient food production and milk preservation.
Recent archaeology uncovers 10,000-year-old relics, including Neolithic to Bronze Age remains and art.
International gathering highlights ambitious aim to understand human origins and future lessons.
Use-wear analysis of grinding tools sheds new light on the subsistence and lifestyle of ancient peoples in region.
Professor Michael Petraglia has always been drawn to the distant past. Growing up, he pored over copies of National Geographic and books about Ancient Egypt that his family – particularly his older sister – would gift him every Christmas. So it seems only natural that he would pursue a career in archaeology that’s taken him around the world, from teaching at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in the UK to directing field projects in Africa and Asia that have reframed our understanding of ancient human migration. Professor Petraglia, now the Director of Griffith University’s Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE), and he talked to Griffith Review Editor Carody Culver about the origin story of our species – which, like humanity itself, is constantly evolving. This is an excerpt.
Study finds dairying began on the Tibetan plateau by ~3500 years ago and supported expansion into non-farmable highlands.
Study finds humid periods in ancient Iran led to the expansions of human populations.
Findings indicate the desert zones of Central Asia may have served as key areas for early hominin dispersals into Eurasia.
Miniature stone and bone discoveries reveal early humans exploited challenging habitats sustainably.
Increasing climate variability has been implicated as a driving force for the origins of our species (Homo sapiens) over 300,000 years ago,...
