While many Australians were heading to the beach during the mid-January heatwave, La Trobe archaeologist Dr Jillian Garvey was undertaking an archaeological dig west of Mildura in outback Victoria. The dig is part of a six-year project led by Dr Garvey at Ned’s Corner Station and in the Murray-Sunset National Park close to the South […]
February 25, 2013
La Trobe students learn lessons about the city beneath their feet Seventy La Trobe University archaeology students are working with professional archaeologists on an exciting six-week inner city ‘dig’ at the site of a famous former Melbourne landmark – the old Carlton United Brewery. Based at the top end of Swanston St, the archaeologists are […]
May 10, 2012
La Trobe University Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, Jim Allen, has joined an elite group of Australian scholars elected Foreign Associates of the US National Academy of Sciences. Professor Allen – a specialist in the archaeology of the South Pacific – was Foundation Professor of the Department of Archaeology from 1985 to 1993, after which […]
April 27, 2012
The study of fossils often helps clarify some important aspect of human history. But recent research, in which scientists extracted the fossilised remains of South China’s ‘Red Deer Cave People’ from rock some twenty years after they were first discovered, has deepened the mystery of human evolution. It also points to an exciting new era […]
December 6, 2011
La Trobe archaeologist helps estimate the age of African fossil finds – Dr Andy Herries has helped firm up a date of almost two million years ago for a number of South African fossils that made world headlines last year when hailed as some of the most complete early human fossils ever found. He is […]
February 21, 2014
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