Since they arrived in Australia in 1788, Europeans have gathered the remains of Aboriginal Australians for museum and research collections, digging up graves ranging from relatively recent in age to 1 ...

A new genetic study has found Indigenous Australians travelled over two distinct routes, and 100 kilometres of open water, to ...

New research confirms humans first reached the Sahul super-continent by two different routes around 60,000 years ago.

In the 1800s, the remains of thousands of Aboriginal Australians were stolen from their graves and sold to museums around the world. When descendants request for the remains to be brought back to ...

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

The bones of hundreds, or even possibly thousands, of indigenous Australians remain in museums worldwide, shipped off after European colonization. Descendants who want these remains returned often ...

Humanity was born in Africa. But at some point, many of our ancestors left. The question of when and how they bid farewell to the continent remains a subject of some debate: A mass exodus occurred ...

A new study featured in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences attempts to settle the 15-year-old debate on which people lived in the continent of Australia. Researchers at ...

Emma Kowal receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council. Elizabeth Watt and Shaun Lehmann do not work for, consult, own shares in or ...

Humanity was born in Africa. But at some point, many of our ancestors left. The question of when and how they bid farewell to the continent remains a subject of some debate: A mass exodus occurred ...