Ice Age children toys to be discovered

Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution
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Griffith researchers are uncovering more about the “archaeologically invisible” — children of the Ice Age and their toys. Archaeologists have believed it near impossible to find toys from the deep past of Europe – the Palaeolithic, which dates to between around 45,000 to 11,000 years ago. Looking for children from this period is a relatively […]

Giant Australian marsupials were like no other

Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution
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A giant prehistoric Ice Age marsupial related to wombats and koalas has been discovered to be the only marsupial known to have ever followed annual seasonal migration. Likening it to “Australia’s Ice Age Serengeti”, researchers tracked the now extinct megafauna diprotodon — a three-tonne beast up to 1.8m tall and 3.5mlong — using fossils and […]