Michael Petraglia
Professor & Director, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution | #HumanEvolution | #Archaeology | Researching #HumanOrigins in #Africa and #Asia
more info: experts.griffith.edu.au/28674-michael-petraglia
- An artistic impression of what we uncovered at Xigou and a snapshot of what life was like in central China 100,000 years ago www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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- Green Arabia: past, present and future. Our scientific findings “sit alongside Saudi Arabia’s current land-restoration push.” timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle...
- My comment on the fascinating new hominin fossil finds from Morocco www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
- The Centre will support a new generation of transdisciplinary researchers including more than 40 research fellows, 70 PhD and Masters students, and 112 Honours students - with half the opportunities prioritised for Indigenous or those from the Global South. www.miragenews.com/griffith-lan...
- I’m so honoured and excited to be leading this international initative together with so many amazing people and organisations news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/09/g...
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- Exciting new discoveries and theories emerging out of China and Eastern Asia about the course of human evolution
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- My comments on the new discovery of hand bones of Paranthropus boisei and its implications for tool use. www.abc.net.au/news/science...
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- Reposted by Michael PetragliaJane Goodall was a global legend at the forefront of discovery — breaking through barriers for women in primatology, science, and beyond. Her curiosity, strength, and kindness changed the world, bridging countries and cultures in pursuit of a better future.
- Had some fun with this one! Based on a publication by @mariaguagnin.bsky.social and our terrific team! 🐪 m.youtube.com/shorts/7Pcec...
- About 12,000 years ago, high up on a cliff in the desert of northern Arabia, an artist – or perhaps artists – was hard at work. @mariaguagnin.bsky.social theconversation.com/12-000-year-...
- Some nice news coverage by @science.org of our recent discoveries of 12,000-year-old life-sized camel engravings in rock art of #SaudiArabia. @mariaguagnin.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...
- New discovery! Here @mariaguagnin.bsky.social and our team report on 12,000-year-old life-size camel rock art engravings in the Saudi desert. #GreenArabia @griffith.edu.au www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Some of my initial comments on the most interesting Yunxian 2 study and its implications. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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- Paper alert! Led by my PhD student Arturo Cueva-Temprana on Engaji Nanyori (Oldupai Gorge). This study offers rare insight into Acheulean technology during the Middle Pleistocene Transition (1.1–0.9 Ma). Striking technological uniformity by early ancestors. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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- Reposted by Michael PetragliaDid you know that WAC-10 World Archaeology Congress (next week) is free for students to attend online? Register here: worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/
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- Paper alert! Happy to have joined Huan et al. to examine miniaturised lithic diversity across the last 20,000 years in southern China and its potential relation to geographic and climatic variability. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Shattered careers. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Quite the provocative title, but why not a crossroad for way longer than we currently realise. www.haaretz.com/archaeology/...
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- Reposted by Michael PetragliaThe goal is to kill scientific funding, stop every approved dollar from going on the door, and then claim it is savings, and hope the House GOP will cut the budget to enable a regressive tax cut.
- BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Michael Petraglia🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Our research led by @gopesh.bsky.social fails to show Toba volcanic winter drama on the ground. www.newscientist.com/article/2477...
- Here we are in the #GreenGobi
- Our discoveries at Jwalapuram have been rather remarkable and of great importance to the natural and cultural #heritage of #India and the world illustrating the effects of the Toba volcanic super-eruption on ecosystems and humans. Please save this site Archaeological Survey of India! #ASI
- Can't wait to see the #GreenGobi 💚
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- 1/ "The Rub’ al-Khali (Empty Quarter) is the largest “sand sea” in the world, but it was once filled with something quite different: water. And lots of it." www.aol.com/scientists-f...
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- Reposted by Michael Petraglia(1/13) A thread on our new paper just published in Nature, ‘Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years’. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Michael PetragliaIn @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- A @nature.com News and Views article on our new work in Arabia. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Our study in the news. "A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent." www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
- Paper alert, @nature.com. Our study reveals 8 million years of #GreenArabia. We document environmental variability - ranging over the entire course of human evolution. Arabia is a key bridge at the cross-roads of continents. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- It's the Toba volcanic super-eruption revival. Well done @gopesh.bsky.social and colleagues! Our results underline the complex responses of regional environments to the Toba super-eruption, which extend beyond a simple widespread ‘volcanic winter’. #India #Toba academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...
- Though a desert today, ancient Arabia had lakes and rivers due to high rainfall. Geological evidence even points to a mass flooding event which carved out a 150km-long valley. cosmosmagazine.com/earth/earth-...
- Abdallah Zak and colleagues demonstrate the existence of ancient lakes, rivers, and a massive water-formed valley beneath Arabia’s vast desert. #GreenArabia dailygalaxy.com/2025/04/disc...
- The desert that we see today in Arabia was once a region that repeatedly underwent 'green' periods in the past, as a result of periods of high rainfall, resulting in the formation of lakes and rivers around 9,000 years ago. www.miragenews.com/unearthing-l...
- Pleased to have joined Abdallah Zaki and an international team to study large scale flooding of the Empty Quarter 9,000 years ago. Important implications for arid zones and human-environment relations. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
- “The Smithsonian Institution has, in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology," the order reads. "This shift has promoted narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
- The ARCHE Seminar Series will host Professor Nick Ashton of the #BritishMuseum, "Fire, Society and Culture: New evidence from 400,000 year old sites in the UK", Thursday 3rd April, Brisbane South (Nathan Campus).
- Only a few days left to send in your abstract for WAC-10 in Darwin.
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- Reposted by Michael PetragliaWestern Europe’s oldest human face discovered in Spain by CENIEH Director @mmartinont.bsky.social #ICTSNews #Pink theconversation.com/western-euro...
- The report criticizes the society, which receives more than €2 billion annually in public funds, saying it does not have a proper supervisory body and that in fact, the president supervises his own actions. Yep, that was my experience at the #MaxPlanck. www.dw.com/en/abuse-eli...
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- Reposted by Michael PetragliaIn @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Thuringia, Germany. “something has changed in young German voters”. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/20/e...
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- Very cool February issue of the National Geographic magazine, "Finding the Other Humans". See if you can spot my name in very fine print - together with other colleagues - in the corner of a couple of these beautiful figures, ha.
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