What is anthracology anyway? The potential of wood charcoal analysis for investigating the history of human-forests interactions in Oceania
Seminar
Archaeobotany is a key method for understanding the long-term history of the human use of plants and the dynamics of human-environment relationships – including key archaeological questions such as human evolution and dispersal around the world, or the complex management practices of so-called “…
The Spice Islands in Prehistory: New Data and Thoughts, 25 years later
Seminar
Between 1991 and 1996, archaeologists from ANU and the formerly-named Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi Nasional in Indonesia undertook excavations in a number of sites (both caves and open sites) in the northern Moluccas (Maluku Utara), eastern Indonesia. Important results were obtained from the sites of…
What do we do when we dig up mass graves?
Seminar
Part of the Biological Anthropology Research Seminars 2017 Every thursday at 4PM
Sexual selection and primate multilevel societies
Seminar
Part of the Biological Anthropology Research Seminars 2017 Every thursday at 4PM
Human and primate adaptations to changing environments
Seminar
Part of the Biological Anthropology Research Seminars 2017 Every thursday at 4PM
Book launch: Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Book launch
This book is a landmark publication for ANU as it represents over 50 years of research into early agriculture in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. The archaeological site at Kuk Swamp in the highlands of Papua New Guinea contains evidence of cultivation practices extending back at least 7000-6400…
The crucial role of the early psychosocial environment in human reproductive developmental plasticity: an evolutionary perspective
Seminar
Part of the Biological Anthropology Research Seminars 2017 Every thursday at 4PM