Stone Pages Archaeo News: Australasia Archives

Index of news related to Australasia

27 March 2020: New Guinea's Neolithic period confirmed
30 January 2020: Homo erectus may not have evolved in Asia
21 January 2020: Australia wildfires reveal ancient aquaculture system
27 December 2019: Ancient humans survived longer than previously thought
20 December 2019: The world's oldest hunting scene discovered in Indonesia
30 January 2019: Ancient humans colonized diverse environments in Southeast Asia and Oceania
17 April 2018: Island-hopping most likely route to Australia
21 February 2018: Australia chemical plants threaten 40,000-year-old rock art
20 December 2017: Early humans in the jungles of Borneo
18 December 2017: 2,500-year-old cave paintings discovered on Indonesian island
: Oldest burial Fish Hooks show prehistoric women fished, too
11 November 2017: Skull could be from the world's earliest known tsunami victim
6 June 2017: Earliest evidence of aboriginal occupation discovered in Australia
27 January 2017: Did humans wipe out Australian megafauna?
14 January 2017: Ancient eel traps in Australia
15 December 2016: Australian rock art dated more accurately
30 November 2016: Amazing discovery of prehistoric rock art in Australia
25 November 2016: Oldest bone jewellery found in Australia
11 November 2016: Aboriginal astronomy provides clues to ancient life
: Australia holds earliest evidence of ground-edge axe technology
7 November 2016: How ancient humans reached remote South Pacific islands
3 October 2016: Indigenous Australian storytelling records sea level rises 7,000 years ago
: 'World's earliest rock art' in Western Australia
23 July 2016: Early Pacific islanders may have used obsidian to make tattoos
22 July 2016: Aboriginal history revealed in caves
5 January 2016: Ancient Vanuatu cemetery sheds light on Polynesian migration
12 February 2015: Prehistoric caves discovered in Papua
8 February 2015: Australian stories tell of ancient climate change
17 December 2014: More ancient rock art found in Southeast Asia
12 December 2014: The origins of symbolic thought
10 December 2014: Oldest engraving discovered on 500,000-year-old shell
9 October 2014: Cave paintings in Indonesia shatter theories about the origin of art
24 June 2014: 45,000-year-old artefacts unearthed in Australia
1 March 2014: Move to reunite Mungo Man with his Lady
14 February 2014: Stone Age fishing spear found on Asian island
6 December 2013: Obsidian cache intrigues archaeologists
21 October 2013: Denisovans may have occupied Australia
10 August 2013: Early civilisation off north west coast of Australia
7 June 2013: The origins of the spear
2 June 2013: Island off the Australian coast surveyed on ancient human life
11 May 2013: First Australians may have been migrants
20 April 2013: Burrup Peninsula rock art among world's oldest
15 April 2013: Art, bodies found in ancient Indonesian caves
4 April 2013: Migration to Marianas longest ocean-crossing in history
9 March 2013: Dig in Micronesia pushes settlement back 3400 years
18 February 2013: Rock art discovered off the coast of Papua
22 January 2013: Indians 'broke Australian isolation 4,000 years ago'
16 November 2012: First Polynesians arrived in Tonga 2,800 years ago
22 June 2012: Oldest Australian rock art discovered
17 April 2012: Extinction of Australian megafauna explained
16 February 2012: Global migration - who came first?
3 February 2012: Ancient jade tool baffles scientists
18 January 2012: Humans were skilled fishermen 42,000 years ago
2 December 2011: Evidence of 42,000 year old deep sea fishing revealed
7 October 2011: Australia's rock art in a hard place
24 September 2011: Aboriginal Australians descended from African migration
15 August 2011: Early settlers arrived in the Marianas 4000 years ago
30 July 2011: Lapita pottery discovered in Fiji
16 July 2011: Tracing back the history of human evolution at Mungo
30 June 2011: Homo erectus did not live alongside modern humans in Indonesia
: Coconut genetics speak of prehistoric migrations
12 June 2011: Half of all Aboriginal rock art could disappear soon
22 May 2011: 25,000-year-old Aboriginal burial site found
18 May 2011: Debate continues over growth of Aboriginal population
8 March 2011: Heritage status for ancient ochre mine in Australia
26 February 2011: Bukit Bunuh: a major Palaeolithic site in Malaysia
13 February 2011: Genetic study uncovers new path to Polynesia
12 February 2011: Stone ring may prove early Aborigines were astronomers
11 February 2011: 10,000-year-old stone carvings discovered in Timor
8 January 2011: Plans for Tasmanian bridge over ancient site move ahead
: Recovering ancient DNA from Homo floresiensis' teeth
31 December 2010: Australian rock art's colours come from micro-organisms
9 December 2010: Australian firestarters
2 December 2010: Did humans cause megafauna demise?
: New geophysical technique applied to rock art
19 November 2010: Road driven through Tasmania's Aboriginal history
17 November 2010: World's oldest axe found in Australia
20 October 2010: Prehistoric New Guinea settlers headed for the hills
: Australian aborigines may have reached Americas first
8 October 2010: Prehistoric remains found in Jakarta
26 July 2010: Ancient Aboriginal skull suggests head reshaping practice
31 May 2010: Australian archaeologists study rock art at secret site
17 May 2010: Ancient Aboriginal rock art sites documented
4 May 2010: Mesolithic cave discovered in North Sumatra
: Ancient Tasmanian artifacts threatened by highway construction
24 April 2010: Australians build a new Stonehenge by the sea
16 March 2010: Ancient tribal meeting ground found in Australia
21 February 2010: Megalithic site found in South Sumatra
16 February 2010: 8,000-year-old skeleton unearthed in Malaysia
10 January 2010: Australian crater located thanks to folklore and Google maps
20 December 2009: Mystery of the Narara caves in Fiji
13 December 2009: Ancient Pacific islanders brought to light
: Evidence of Australia's first human occupation found
: Ancient volcano's devastating effects confirmed
23 November 2009: Early humans may have been 'hobbits', scientists say
2 November 2009: 'Matuto' petroglyphs found in New Guinea
22 August 2009: Australia's first astronomers
8 August 2009: New study on Flores 'hobbits'
26 July 2009: DNA confirms coastal trek to Australia
: How clothing has given humans an edge over other species
19 July 2009: Stone rings unearthed at prehistoric sites in Java
13 July 2009: 15 new prehistoric sites found in Java
: Ancient supervolcano's eruption caused severe winters
10 May 2009: 'Hobbit' foot like no other in human fossil record
8 April 2009: Hobbit brain was organized for complex intelligence
8 February 2009: 'Hobbit' feud: scientists argue over mysterious bones
: Ancient Tongan rock carvings may offer clues to voyagers
31 January 2009: Ancient human remains discovered in Bali
25 January 2009: 'Hobbit' skull study: species not human
20 December 2008: Anthropologist concludes 'Hobbit' represents a new species
: World's oldest portrait in peril
8 November 2008: 6,000 km trip to reveal clues to ancient migration
2 November 2008: Sumatra archeologists find prehistoric stone axes
26 October 2008: Discovery might lead to Filipino lost tribe
13 October 2008: Rock-art find rewrites Australian history
21 September 2008: Neolithic skeletons discovered in Malaysia
14 September 2008: Bones reveal final moments of ancient Australian man
31 August 2008: Prehistoric Pacific islanders grow in stature and controversy
17 August 2008: Neolithic burial site discovered in Malaysia
28 July 2008: Australia's ancient Aboriginal rock art at risk
19 July 2008: Wollemi Wilderness yields its ancient secrets
14 July 2008: Early Australian tattoos match rock art
26 April 2008: Early Pacific settlement dig yields fine jewelry, pottery
12 April 2008: Aboriginal site among Australia's oldest
16 March 2008: Pictograph in NZ derived from ancient Asian-Pacific culture?
3 March 2008: Cannibalism may have wiped out Neanderthals
19 January 2008: Genetic study suggests Polynesians descended from East Asians
13 January 2008: Tongan site dated oldest in Polynesia
6 January 2008: Dwarf gene discovery: explanation for 'hobbit' species?
15 December 2007: Archaeologists find speared skeleton in Australia
3 November 2007: Dig uncovers ancient Aboriginal dwellers
: Study of ancient skeletons found in Vanuatu
17 October 2007: Ancient human migrations in the Pacific Region
29 September 2007: Archaeological find rewrites Tasmania's history
: Ice age Australians sheltered in caves
16 September 2007: Sydney's history goes back 30,000 years
26 August 2007: Ancient sites may be hiding in Australian bays
12 August 2007: 40,000-year-old site discovered in Australia
9 July 2007: Australian ancient rock art to be heritage listed
3 June 2007: Ancient Tasmanians had wombats on their menus
20 May 2007: 20,000 Aboriginal artefacts found at Defence site
22 April 2007: 3,000 years ago Malaysia was a pottery-making hub
: Wollemi find an Aboriginal seat of the gods
18 March 2007: Tracing back Malaysia's stone-age man in Lenggong
4 March 2007: Ancient remains unearthed in Vanuatu
31 December 2006: Ancient trade in Papua New Guinea
22 December 2006: Timor cave may reveal how humans reached Australia
: Australian Government rejects listing for ancient site
17 December 2006: Aboriginal language had ice age origins
: Scientists solve riddle of faces on Pacific artifacts
19 October 2006: Funding rejection 'threatens' Wollemi art research
15 October 2006: Ancient stone axe found in Australia
: Evidence demonstrates that 'Hobbit' is not a new species
8 October 2006: Australian energy company to fund rock art scholarship
25 August 2006: 'Hobbit' was a disabled caveman?
16 July 2006: Bypass works uncover ancient site in Australia
4 June 2006: Ancient artifacts rekindle debate on 'Hobbits'
30 May 2006: Tasmanian rock art under wraps
21 May 2006: 'Hobbit humans' discovery dismissed
23 April 2006: Graves of the Pacific's first seafarers revealed
26 March 2006: Findings from Vanuatu may shed light on human migration
1 February 2006: Ancient stone houses uncovered by a bushfire in Australia
12 January 2006: Ancient Australian rock carvings vandalised
7 January 2006: Cave art: men and women each did their own thing
24 December 2005: 20,000 BCE human footprints found in Australia
12 December 2005: 'Hobbits' may be earliest Australians
4 December 2005: Wollemi rock art shows Aboriginal Dreaming
13 November 2005: Saipan may be Pacific's oldest archaeological site
2 November 2005: Polynesian cemetery unlocks ancient burial secrets
25 September 2005: Evolutionary tools may unlock origins of ancient languages
13 August 2005: Face of ancient Fiji shows Pacific's past
16 July 2005: New finding disputes myth of early settlers in the Pacific
3 July 2005: Prehistoric Aboriginal site found in Queensland
13 June 2005: Ancient ceramics to shed light on Borneo's history
13 March 2005: Hobbit skeleton 'damaged'
6 March 2005: Critics silenced by scans of 'hobbit' skull
20 February 2005: New Zealand unveils Stonehenge replica
30 January 2005: Did early humans 'turn off' Australia's monsoons?
15 January 2005: New species may have relatives in next villlage
29 October 2004: A tiny species joins human family tree
24 October 2004: Pottery shows true face of first Pacific settlers
2 October 2004: Aborigines collect ancestral remains
28 August 2004: 3000-year-old bodies unearthed in Vanuatu
5 June 2004: Megalithic tradition is preserved in Indonesia
3 June 2004: From Oetzi to the planets
7 May 2004: 'Kiwihenge' due to open in June
10 April 2004: Mining and pollution impact on ancient rock art sites
17 March 2004: Ancient Aboriginal rock art defaced
12 December 2003: Lemdubu Woman: when Indonesia was part of Australia
: Early farmers may have warmed Earth's climate
11 December 2003: Ritual burials excavated in Australia
8 December 2003: Ancient cave art found in Tasmania
1 October 2003: Dingoes descended from domestic dogs
6 September 2003: Aboriginal art at Ayers Rock is vanishing
26 August 2003: More details about Aboriginal ancient rock art
24 July 2003: Australia colonized earlier than previously thought?
8 July 2003: Ancient Aboriginal art discovered