Scientists say recent research has reinforced understanding of the region's past not as a human desert, but rather as a ...

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologist and anthropologist Sue Smalldon sits among ancient rocks at Deep Gorge on the Burrup peninsula in the north of ...

For most of the human history of Australia, sea levels were much lower than they are today, and there was extra dry land where people lived. Archaeologists could only speculate about how people used ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The 40,000-year-old remains of an Aboriginal man that prompted a drastic rewrite of Australian history were returned to his ancestral homeland on Friday after four decades of ...

The research, part of the Indigenous American Genomic Diversity Project, combined newly sequenced genomes with existing databases to analyze a total of 199 contemporary Indigenous individuals from 53 ...

For tens of thousands of years, Aboriginal Australians have created some of the world’s most striking artworks. Today their work continues long lines of ancestral traditions, stories of the past and ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The 40,000-year-old remains of an Aboriginal man that prompted a drastic rewrite of Australian history were returned to his ancestral homeland on Friday after four decades of ...