Top archaeological award

The research of human evolution specialist Darren Curnoe has been recognised by 150 of the world’s top archaeologists at the inaugural Shanghai Archaeology Forum held in China recently. The award, described as the “Nobel Prize for archaeology,” was given recently given in Shanghai by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences for Associate Professor Curnoe’s discovery of the “Red Deer Cave people” – an archaic human population which lived in southwest China between 14,500 and 11,500 years ago. The work was considered the number 1 Major Archaeological Research Finding in the World for 2011-12, with a total of nine prizes given out in the category. The award was given following peer nomination and a two-step selection process by a committee of the world’s top 150 archaeologists from prestigious and archaeology heavy weight institutions like Cambridge, Oxford, Natural History museum (London), Harvard, Yale and the Australian National University. Overall, the research was recognised as being among the world’s top 20 archaeology discoveries, and was included among prestigious and historically significant research such as the discovery of the city that housed the builders of the Egyptian pyramids at Giza, excavations of the Mayan pyramids, discovery of the oldest civilisations in China and the first farming communities in the world developing in the Near East.

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