Michael Petraglia
@mdpetraglia.bsky.social
Professor & Director, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution | #HumanEvolution | #Archaeology | Researching #HumanOrigins in #Africa and #Asia
more info: https://experts.griffith.edu.au/28674-michael-petraglia
more info: https://experts.griffith.edu.au/28674-michael-petraglia
For the publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
For the publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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...
September 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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...
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
April 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Thanks to our fantastic speleothem team - especially our lead author Monika Markowska - and Hubert Vonhof and his lab - leading the way.
April 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Thanks to our fantastic speleothem team - especially our lead author Monika Markowska - and Hubert Vonhof and his lab - leading the way.
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...
April 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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...
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...
April 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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...
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).
March 28, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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).
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.
February 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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.
Check out these five amazing sessions in our “Transforming Human Origins Research” Theme to be held at WAC-10 in June! Here’s your chance to make a presentation! worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/theme-...
January 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Check out these five amazing sessions in our “Transforming Human Origins Research” Theme to be held at WAC-10 in June! Here’s your chance to make a presentation! worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/theme-...
We have a third session under our 'Transforming Human Origins Research' Theme at the World Archaeological Congress, "Human Origins and Evolving Cultures in Southern Asia Over the Last 300,000 Years". Contact the organisers if interested in presenting! worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/theme-...
January 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
We have a third session under our 'Transforming Human Origins Research' Theme at the World Archaeological Congress, "Human Origins and Evolving Cultures in Southern Asia Over the Last 300,000 Years". Contact the organisers if interested in presenting! worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/theme-...
None of these would have prepared me for Lew Binford’s questions: 1 Petraglia you are an empiricist. Explain. 2 What are you going to do over the next 30 years?
December 29, 2024 at 10:31 AM
None of these would have prepared me for Lew Binford’s questions: 1 Petraglia you are an empiricist. Explain. 2 What are you going to do over the next 30 years?
An oldie but goodie. The #cappuccino handaxe, Saudi Arabia
December 21, 2024 at 12:19 AM
An oldie but goodie. The #cappuccino handaxe, Saudi Arabia
Behavioural variability and change is going to be a big part of the hominin story in China. Watch this space! www.sciengine.com/CSB/doi/10.1...
November 30, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Behavioural variability and change is going to be a big part of the hominin story in China. Watch this space! www.sciengine.com/CSB/doi/10.1...
Mid-Pleistocene climatic and ecological transitions, and the formation of modern desert and loess landscapes and river networks, emerge as critical events during the dispersal of early hominins in Palearctic Eurasia. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 28, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Mid-Pleistocene climatic and ecological transitions, and the formation of modern desert and loess landscapes and river networks, emerge as critical events during the dispersal of early hominins in Palearctic Eurasia. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Happy Thanksgiving. Peace and love.
November 28, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Happy Thanksgiving. Peace and love.
Fond memories of Colin Renfrew in Cambridge. He was a Discussant during our South Asia conference in 2004. The way he could pull disparate information into a meaningful whole was impressive. He’s in the upper left with other giants in our field, some of whom have also passed.
November 25, 2024 at 1:16 AM
Fond memories of Colin Renfrew in Cambridge. He was a Discussant during our South Asia conference in 2004. The way he could pull disparate information into a meaningful whole was impressive. He’s in the upper left with other giants in our field, some of whom have also passed.
Colin Renfrew - the passing of a giant in archaeology.
November 24, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Colin Renfrew - the passing of a giant in archaeology.
I had a wonderful meeting this morning with the extraordinary biological anthropologist, author and TV presenter @profaliceroberts.bsky.social. Very pleased that Alice has agreed to Chair the Advisory Committee for our initiative “Transforming Human Origins Research”!
November 21, 2024 at 4:17 AM
I had a wonderful meeting this morning with the extraordinary biological anthropologist, author and TV presenter @profaliceroberts.bsky.social. Very pleased that Alice has agreed to Chair the Advisory Committee for our initiative “Transforming Human Origins Research”!
Gave a talk on our “Transforming Human Origins Research” Initiative at Rock Art Australia’s annual Scientific Advisory Board workshop today.
November 20, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Gave a talk on our “Transforming Human Origins Research” Initiative at Rock Art Australia’s annual Scientific Advisory Board workshop today.
Fabulous lecture last night on the massive strides that have been undertaken in understanding Australian rock art. rockartaustralia.org.au/event/two-wa...
November 19, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Fabulous lecture last night on the massive strides that have been undertaken in understanding Australian rock art. rockartaustralia.org.au/event/two-wa...
Back in 2007 we published the first article securely associating human occupation and the Toba volcanic super-eruption 74,000 years ago. We have two more papers in the works! Apparently can’t get away from this topic. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 18, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Back in 2007 we published the first article securely associating human occupation and the Toba volcanic super-eruption 74,000 years ago. We have two more papers in the works! Apparently can’t get away from this topic. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Important new paper by Beyin et al. on human adaptations to the African coastal ecotone - complementing our work at #PangayaSaidi in Kenya. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 17, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Important new paper by Beyin et al. on human adaptations to the African coastal ecotone - complementing our work at #PangayaSaidi in Kenya. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Join Ian Waina and Prof. Andy Gleadow as they share how traditional owners and scientists have worked together over the last decade to determine the age of #rockart sites on Kwini and Balanggarra Country in the East Kimberley. rockartaustralia.org.au/event/two-wa...
November 17, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Join Ian Waina and Prof. Andy Gleadow as they share how traditional owners and scientists have worked together over the last decade to determine the age of #rockart sites on Kwini and Balanggarra Country in the East Kimberley. rockartaustralia.org.au/event/two-wa...