Oldest evidence of life on land found in 3.48 billion-year-old Australian rocks Whether you are looking at an actual fossil or crinkles in the rock itself can be hard to tell in the search for the earliest life on earth. The discovery of 3.5 billion – year – old fossils in the Australian desert in …

42,000 years old Mungo Man skeleton, the oldest human remains found in Australia First, a skull, then a torso and eventually an entire skeleton emerged from the sands of south-west New South Wales. When the bones of Australia’s oldest and most complete humans were unearthed in the 1970s it rewrote history. Dubbed Mungo Man after …

Australian scientists discover ancient underwater Aboriginal sites Aboriginal archeological sites were found first underwater in the northwest of Australia a thousand years ago when the current seabed was dry land. Artifacts of Aboriginal discovered off the Pilbara coast in Western Australia represent Australia’s oldest known underwater archaeology. The observations were carried out through a series of …

Mining Camp Found in Southeast Australia Researchers from Macquarie University were examining remains of industrial equipment that was used to haul shale out of the valley when New South Wales National Parks rangers alerted them to the presence of other structures and artifacts, including wall foundations, hearths, paving, corrugated iron roofing, ceramics, and glᴀss that …

Late 19th-Century Brisbane’s original Chinatown found under Albert Street in Australia QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA – The Archeology org document in Brisbane, a town located on the East Coast of Australia, that more than 200 objects from the end of the 19th century, including tobacco and opium pipes, bottles, crockery, books, and animal bones, have been unearthed in …

110-million-old rare species of ‘toothless dinosaur’ discovered in Australia Anyone a fan of ‘How To Train Your Dragon’? We know, totally random, but the main dragon was named Toothless. Just like him, we a unique species of ‘toothless’ dinosaurs that are 110 million years old in Australia have been found. A fossil of a rare …

Australian Aboriginal people were baking bread and farming grain 20,000 years before Egypt What would your response be if you were asked who were the world’s first bakers? Many people think of ancient Egypt first, where it is believed that bread was baked about 17,000 BCE first. But there is evidence that grindstones were used …

Amber Fossil Shows Two Trapped Flies that Died while Mating 41 Million Years Ago One of the earliest, fossilized animals ever found are a pair of fornicating flies that were preserved in amber 41 million years ago. The frisky insects appear to have been in the very throes of pᴀssion when they got trapped in …

5000-Year-Old Papua New Guinea Artifacts Rewrite Neolithic History Previously found at ancient Asian and European sites, Now for the first time in New Guinea, the signs of a cultural shift in toolmaking and the lifestyle of farmers found.   Archaeological Dig at a highland site called Waim produced relics of a cultural transition to village life, which played out on …