Internal Use Tag: Nature

A team of Indonesian and Australian archaeologists co-led by Griffith University academics has unearthed the skeletal remains of a young hunter-gatherer whose lower left leg was amputated by a skilled prehistoric surgeon 31,000 years ago. The discovery, published in Nature, is thought to be the earliest known evidence for a complex medical act, pre-dating other […]

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 […]

Griffith physicists measure definitive time it takes a particle to tunnel through a barrier in a world first.

Cave paintings in Borneo among the world’s oldest examples of figurative depiction.