9,000-Year-Old Stone Houses Found On Australian Island Archaeologists working on the Dampier Archipelago, just off the West Australian coast, have found evidence of stone houses dated to shortly after the last ice age, between 8,000 and 9,000 years ago – making them the oldest houses in Australia. The Dampier Archipelago is a group of 42 …

Rare coffee beans dating back 167 years ago were found by archaeologists working on the Metro Tunnel project Perfectly preserved coffee beans dating back more than 167 years have been found by archaeologists working on the Metro Tunnel project, confirming that Melbourne has always been Australia’s coffee capital. The archaeologists were digging up the historic …

World’s oldest sperm found in Queensland cave Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest and best-preserved sperm from tiny shrimps, measuring a mᴀssive 1.3 millimetres and dating back to 17 million years in Australia. Preserved giant sperm from shrimps were found at the Riversleigh World Heritage Fossil Site in Queensland and are the oldest fossilised sperm …

Australia’s first marine Aboriginal archaeological site questioned A new study from The University of Western Australia has challenged earlier claims that Aboriginal stone artefacts discovered off the Pilbara coast in Western Australia represent Australia’s first undisturbed underwater archaeological site. The original findings were made in a study published in 2020 in PLOS ONE, by a team …

Aboriginal Artwork In The Kimberley Could Be Among Oldest In The World, Scientists Say Archaeologists and Aboriginal elders are hoping the most comprehensive study of rock art in the Kimberley region will confirm the images are among the oldest made by humans anywhere in the world.  More than a dozen scientists took part in two …

An Egyptian Pyramid In Australia? Archaeologists Claim Mᴀssive Structure Dates Back 5,000 Years An archaeologist believes that there’s a MᴀssIVE 900-meter tall pyramid hidden in plain sight beneath thick layers of vegetation and soil in Australia. The structure is believed to date back some 5,000 years. Pyramids are scattered all across the globe. No matter …

First Australians ate giant eggs of huge flightless birds, ancient proteins confirm Proteins extracted from fragments of prehistoric eggshells found in the Australian sands confirm that the continent’s earliest humans consumed the eggs of a two-metre tall bird that disappeared into extinction over 47,000 years ago.  Burn marks discovered on scraps of ancient shell several …

A new study shows how diet has transformed the ancient dog into a family pet The shape of the mandible (the lower jaw) is influenced by the mechanical action of the jaw muscles that connect it to the skull, and the mandible shape, therefore, reflects the diet of the animal. The lower jaw is also …

‘Australia’s silk road’: Quarry sites dating back 2,100 years reveal a world-scale trading system in Mithaka country In Queensland’s remote Channel Country of red dirt and gibber rock, traditional owners and archaeologists have unearthed what researchers have dubbed “Australia’s Silk Road”. The region is archaeologically significant: the landscape has been dramatically altered by a huge …