Griffith University rock art researchers are part of expert team who will spend the next five years investigating one of the richest bodies of rock art in Australia.

A highly regarded chemical biologist with a distinguished record in championing research across several continents, Professor Mario Pinto, has been announced as Griffith University’s new Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research).

Griffith researcher dates early human fossil found in Greece at 210,000 years old. 

First ancient nuclear genomes of Aboriginal Australians show repatriation of unprovenanced remains possible.

A Griffith University researcher has played a key role in the international multidisciplinary team that has discovered a new human species in a Philippines cave.   Professor Rainer Grün, Director of Griffith’s Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE), used uranium series analysis to date the teeth and bones from three small hominid individuals found in […]

Investigating geochemical signatures in surface geology and ancient remains could aid repatriation of Indigenous skeletons to their place of origin.

Intricate, multi-toothed tools found to be 2700 years old, making them the oldest confirmed tattooing combs found in Oceania. 

Oldest and longest record of specialised active primate hunting offers insights into how people inhabited extreme environment.  

Discovery indicates ancient humans occupied site more than half a million years earlier than previously thought. 

250,000 year-old Neanderthal teeth reveal the oldest exposure to lead and the first natural weaning from breastfeeding. 

Highly revered 'bin chicken' finds itself at the heart of historic debate on evolution

Emerging scientists at Griffith University have been recognised at the Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science Awards for 2018.

Researchers help put to bed the long-held and debated theories into the origins of populations within the South East Asia regions.

The critically endangered orangutan - one of humankind’s closest living relatives - has become a symbol of wild nature’s vulnerability in the face of human actions and an icon of rainforest conservation.

New dating research led by Griffith University has confirmed the great antiquity of fossil remains attributed to a species of human called Homo antecessor found in Spain.

Renewed excavations at a limestone rock-shelter inhabited by ‘Ice Age’ hunter-gatherers on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi have revealed new evidence for earlier human occupation.