Three University of Queensland academics have received the nation’s highest honour in humanities.
25 November 2024Archaeologists are generating a 65,000-year-old rainfall record from ancient food scraps found at Australia’s earliest-known site of human occupation.
26 January 2021The recent discovery of stone tools in India reveal that humans survived and coped with one of the largest volcanic events in human history.
26 February 2020Australia’s first plant foods – eaten by early populations 65,000 years ago - have been discovered in Arnhem Land.
18 February 2020The University of Queensland celebrated excellence in teaching and learning at Brisbane’s Customs House last night.
30 October 2018Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 65,000 years – much longer than the 47,000 years believed by some archaeologists.
20 July 2017University of Queensland’s archaeology students are able to dig up the ancient past and investigate contemporary murder scenes, thanks to a $340,000 purpose-built outdoor teaching area that includes a projectile firing range.
13 May 2013An archaeologist from UQ is part of a team led by ANU, that reported one of the world's oldest pieces of evidence of deep-sea fishing in the journal Science.
8 December 2011The University of Queensland will receive $33.32 million in federal government research funding through 94 successful Australian Research Council Discovery Projects grants announced yesterday.
26 October 2010UQ archaeology experts have recently hosted a national conference and been singled out for their commitment to research and Indigenous engagement.
22 December 2008Who would have thought that the best place to find out when people first came to Australia would be in India, but for University of Queensland archaeologist Dr Chris Clarkson it makes perfect sense.
7 April 2008