Tag: Anthropology and Sociology
Stonehenge may have been pilgrimage site for sick
Archaeologists probing the secrets of Stonehenge, Britain's most famous prehistoric monument, said it may have been an ancient pilgrimage site for the sick who believed its stones had healing qualities.[MORE]
US museum urged to return Indigenous remains
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Traditional Arnhem Land owners want a major US museum to return their ancestors' remains.[MORE]
Remains found on SA west coast
Aboriginal heritage experts probe human remains found near Streaky Bay in SA.[MORE]
Macklin praises Smithsonian over Indigenous remains return
The Indigenous Affairs Minister has praised major cultural institutions prepared to return Aboriginal ancestral remains. [MORE]
Aboriginal remains handed over in Scotland
Smoking ceremony marks handover of Aboriginal remains in Edinburgh, Scotland.[MORE]
Academic seeks answers to Indigenous deaths in custody
An academic is travelling overseas to see how other nations have tried to develop culturally appropriate prisons to reduce deaths in custody.[MORE]
Anthropologist, Ravensbruck survivor Tillion dies aged 100
French anthropologist, feminist, resistance fighter, concentration camp survivor, Algeria peacemaker and writer Germaine Tillion has died aged 100, the chairman of the foundation named after her announced.[MORE]
'Hobbit' fossils could be dwarf finding: researchers
A group of Australian scientists has questioned the discovery of what was thought to be the fossils of a new species of human being.[MORE]
Gene studies confirm 'out of Africa' theories
Two genetic studies have confirmed theories that modern humans evolved in Africa and then migrated through Europe and Asia to reach the Pacific and Americas.[MORE]
Alice Springs' first people not nomadic: academic
A visiting academic will argue tonight that some Aboriginal people around the Alice Springs region were not nomadic, as is commonly believed. [MORE]
Speared man unearthed after 4,000 years
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Construction workers in Sydney have unearthed what archaeologists say is the earliest evidence of death by spearing.[MORE]
Earliest humans lived complex lives, scientists find
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New research reveals that humans were using symbolic tools like body paint 164,000 years ago.[MORE]
Australia tops list for vanishing languages
Australia has topped a list of 'hot spots' for the extinction of Indigenous languages.[MORE]
American university to return Machu Picchu objects
Yale University in the US says it will return artefacts taken 90 years ago from Machu Picchu, as Peru is the rightful owner of thousands of objects found at the Inca citadel.[MORE]
Fossil find casts doubt on origins of man
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New research throws up a serious challenge to the widely accepted view on human evolution.[MORE]
Fossils paint new picture of human evolution
An ancient skull and upper jawbone from two early branches of the human family tree - Homo erectus and Homo habilis - suggest the early human ancestors may have lived close together for half a million years, researchers say.[MORE]
Researchers make 'groundbreaking' primitive life find in Pilbara
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Researchers say they have identified evidence of primitive life forms in the Pilbara that are more than three billion years old.[MORE]
Droppings DNA aids tassie tiger research
Adelaide University researchers are examining the DNA of animal droppings to try to work out if the tasmanian tiger survived beyond its reported extinction in the 1930s.[MORE]
Tas Aboriginal Centre seeks return of museum skulls
The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre says aboriginal skulls discovered in Vienna's Museum of Natural History could be returned to Australia by the end of the year.[MORE]
Aborigines to seek return of more remains
A delegation of Tasmanian Aborigines believes the pressure is on other British institutions to hand back ancestral remains after a deal was struck with the London-based Natural History Museum.[MORE]
BBC, Geldof to catalogue all human existence
Irish rocker and Live Aid founder Bob Geldof is to team up with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on a project to digitally catalogue all known human existence.[MORE]
France to return 'pharaoh's hair' to Egypt
France is to hand over to Egypt a lock of hair said to belong to the mummy of Ramses II that was put on sale on the Internet last year, French officials say.[MORE]
Two groups may have populated Australia: researcher
New genetic evidence suggests Australia may have been populated by two separate groups of humans - one arriving via Papua New Guinea, the other via Indonesia, a researcher says. [MORE]
Laughter all part of the mind, researcher says
An Australian researcher who is trying to unravel the thought patterns that underpin humour says laughter involves a unique form of consciousness.[MORE]
Tanzanian monkey found to be new species
A new species of monkey identified in Tanzania's highlands last year is an even more remarkable find than thought - it is a new genus of animal.[MORE]
