A new study in Quaternary Science Reviews refutes long-held beliefs that Aboriginal Australians didn’t make pottery. Researchers with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for ...

The discovery of the oldest pottery ever found in Australia on Jiigurru/Lizard Island off the Queensland coast is challenging the idea that Aboriginal Australian communities were unaware of pottery ...

Indigenous Australians were manufacturing ceramics on a remote island, nearly 35 kilometres from the Queensland coast, more than 2000 years ago. Pottery fragments found on Jiigurru (Lizard Island) in ...

Humans have been painting on rocks and in caves for tens of thousands of years. Some of the oldest rock art made by people could be as much as 73,000 years old, while the oldest cave art has been ...

Native American pottery is more than art—it’s a living link to heritage, land, and community. From ancient hand-coiling to modern innovations, each vessel carries stories across generations. Today’s ...

New research conducted at Walufeni Cave, an important archaeological site in Papua New Guinea, reveals new evidence of long-distance interactions between Oceania's Indigenous societies, as far back as ...

Pottery was largely unknown in Australia before the recent past, despite well-known pottery traditions in nearby Papua New Guinea and the islands of the western Pacific. The absence of ancient ...

Archaeological research at Walufeni Cave on Papua New Guinea’s Great Papuan Plateau reveals evidence of 3,200-year-old ...