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This past Saturday, the first Harvard Australian Studies Symposium brought Australian and American archaeologists together. And this past Saturday, a scheduling mishap bridged even greater divides by bringing these archaeologists to the Queen’s Head Pub Drag Show...
...Absolutely. I’m actually a woman,” said Australian archaeologist Ken Mulvaney, who despite a single earring, looked convincingly masculine with his titanic grey beard...
...Upcoming excavations of Flores spearheaded by Mike Morwood, the lead researcher of the Australian-Indonesian team that first unearthed the bones, may help answer the essential question, as Falk puts it, "When did the first [hobbit ancestors] get to the island, and what did they look like...
...huge metals company, recently spent $19.5 billion buying into global mining giant Rio Tinto (RTP). Rio needed the money to decrease its debt. There is speculation that China wanted to secure access to minerals. To that extent, the investment was a "strategic" one on China's part. The Australian government considered blocking the deal but did not. Perhaps debt-laden Rio made the case that it needed the money too much to help it through the economic downturn. (See pictures of China's electronic waste village...
...What makes Sally Langford's discovery so remarkable - and worthy of reporting in the journal Astrobiology on April 6 - is not what she saw, but how she saw it. Once a month over the course of three years, Langford stood huddled against the evening chill in lonely Australian farmland and watched as the east coast of Africa shone in the midday sun. Using little more than a backyard telescope and a clever idea, she became the first person in history to see the continents and oceans of Earth by watching their reflections in the Moon. (See pictures of Earth from...