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ON FEBRUARY 26, 1974, a young geologist managed to stretch Australian history by 20,000-odd years when he found 40,000-year-old human remains buried in a dry lake bed in south-western New South Wales.

The discovery, made in the midst of the Aboriginal rights movement – which would quickly intergrate the findings into its slogans – would later double the time that Australia's first humans were thought to have arrived on the continent.

Jim Bowler, now in his 80s, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne, was with the Australian National University when he came across the remains at Lake Mungo, about 700 km west of Sydney.

"Whoever did this, did it with a vengeance - a meanness," he said of the damage to the site known as the Conrail Research Site. "This was not simply knocking things over. If there was a piece of wood, they snapped it in half. We made benches for people to sit on and they tore them apart. They tore down the tarp and cut holes through it again and again."

Since the early 1990s, the Duryea dig removed and cataloged hundreds of artifacts: knifes, points, cutting tools and pottery. The dig was done professionally. The site was gridded and protected from the elements by a 30-by-24 foot tarp weather port. Through they years, the site hosted hundreds of children teaching them about archeology, history and anthropology.

Recently, a point retrieved at the site was carbon dated to about 8,000 B.C. The earliest people are believed to have come to the region just 2,000 years prior to that, Pesotine said. At some point they settled at the location which offered them a water source, a place to fish and hunt game - either ducks on the river or deer on the banks, he said.

Birch Folding Ruler is a quality product used by archaeological surveyors, buildings archaeologists and architects.

The aim of Time Manager plugin for QGIS is to provide comfortable browsing through temporal geodata. A dock widget provides a time slider and a configuration dialog for your layers to manage. Time ...

The MakerBot Replicator 2X Experimental 3D Printer is for brave explorers with the patience to deal with ABS plastic and dual extrusion. Want to live on the edge?

A new study on the populations of wild cattle and boars in the Levant Valley by Nimrod Marom, Guy Bar-OzLaboratory of Archaeozoology, University of Haifa, Israel has been published in PLOSone online Journal. The research helps reshape our present understanding on the beginning of agriculture and domestication of animals.

The results from this clever hack have to be seen to be believed–and can be in this great video compilation. Read on to see how a $6 egg timer can become a fantastic panning time lapse engine.

Ball Compass can be used perfectly for archaeology photography and for general direction finding in archaeology

Liquid filled pin-on compass.

Pins on for hands free use with a rotating ball compass within showing the cardinal points on a luminous dial.

The Ball shaped compass works at any angle with a safety pin type attachment.

A fast north allows you to get the rough alignment of features on site or survey and aids direction when taking photographs.

Brilliant when taking photographs, just pin to your jacket and look down to see which way you are pointing the camera! At Past Horizons, we have been able to use this in some very awkward spaces where hands free direction finding was a real bonus.  

An outstanding compass at such a reasonable price, how can you not fail to love it!

Radiocarbon dating is the technique upon which chronologies of the late Pleistocene and Holocene have been built.

This resource is designed to provide online information concerning the radiocarbon dating method and will be of occasional use to radiocarbon users and interested students alike.

Long-buried bones and a missing monarch. Add some historical notoriety and modern technology and you have a heck of a captivating, science-driven story.

Beautifully crafted timelines that are easy, and intuitive to use.

The only complete, interactive, 3-D model of human anatomy which is fully visualizable and manipulable. Improved learning, insight and accuracy.

BoneLab 2is a learning program for the anatomy of the human skeleton based on our standard skeleton model. It comes with an expandable collection of sectional, labeled 3D-views. Visual 3D-view management, a user specific dictionary and instant access to further online information make BoneLab 2 a most efficient aid for learning, studying and reference.

Bahco Open Reel Fibre Glass 50 Metre / 165 Feet Long Tape Measure

Metric/imperial

Strong fibreglass blade to withstand pulling force of near 500Kg.

Double nylon blade coating for extra wear resistance.

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The Scottish Archaeological Research Framework (ScARF) reflects the current state of knowledge regarding Scotland’s past. As understanding of the past changes, so too will ScARF. It should be seen as a live document that will be constantly updated, edited and improved. The people developing ScARF are the people who use it: those who research Scotland’s past for enjoyment, employment, or frequently both.

Small shovel for big works in confined spaces or if an easy to transport shovel is needed for work in archaeology

Archaeologists digging at a site in south Wales uncover an entire suit of Roman armour, along with some weapons.