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Dargan Shelter sheltered the earliest Australians during the last Ice Age.
Oceania

Human Origins: Oldest Ice Age human settlement in Australia found high up in the Blue Mountains

July 2, 2025

Archaeologists with the Australian Museum say they’ve uncovered unequivocal evidence of continued Ice Age human habitation in a cave in the Blue Mountains at high elevations, at altitudes that ancient peoples were previously thought to […]

Fossilized footprints left by an extinct cat-like species were discovered at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in Oregon, USA.
North America

Prehistoric animal footprints discovered at Oregon park

April 21, 2025

Archaeologists have uncovered fossilized footprints of animals that lived at a site in Oregon up to 50 million years ago. John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is a public park in central Oregon famous for […]

A digital enhancement of a cave painting in Indonesia first painted more than 51,000 years ago.
Asia

World’s oldest cave painting in Indonesian park unveils the deep prehistory of art

July 10, 2024

At first glance, the importance of the image adorning the wall of a remote cave in central Indonesia is easy to miss. The image, shown to reporters by archaeologists during a recent online press conference, […]

Fossil human footprints were found at an undisclosed location at White Sands National Park in New Mexico.
North America

Ancient footsteps reveal 23,000 years of human history at White Sands National Park

January 31, 2024

For years, archaeologists said we can trace the beginnings of human settlement in the Americas to at least 12,000 years ago. That’s about when wanderers from Asia first crossed the Bering Land Bridge into North […]

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