Australia was nearly one-third bigger 12,000 years ago. But when glaciers melted at the end of the last Ice Age, sea levels rose sharply, engulfing 770,000 square miles of the continent's coastline.

A series of indigenous tools, dating back more than 9,000 years, were discovered off the coast of Australia, researchers said. Photo from Thierry Meier, UnSplash A series of stone tools lay ...

Indigenous knowledge systems are bodies of knowledge that were developed and used by local communities for centuries. They shape how people understand their environment, solve problems, and live ...

The items, which are yet to be authenticated, were stone materials. Stone tool fragments from a South Australian collection. An investigation was launched after a member of Tasmania’s Aboriginal ...

A new study into the multipurpose uses of boomerangs has highlighted the hardwood objects were used to shape the edges of stone tools used by Australian Indigenous communities. The research ...

More than 100 Aboriginal artefacts have been covered over after a Tasmanian government agency gave another government agency permission to upgrade a path in the state's north. The Tasmanian Aboriginal ...

The site had been occupied for centuries, with earlier layers indicating more typical domestic activity inside a stone ...