CAR brings together the internationally recognised research expertise of the Departments of Archaeology and Natural History (ANH), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, and the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology (A&A), the Faculty of Arts, with similarly acclaimed research in Quaternary Geochronology based in the ANU radiocarbon laboratory and elsewhere in the Research School of Earth Sciences (RSES).

The establishment by the Australian National University in October 1999 of the Centre for Archaeological Research (CAR) consolidates previous resources in Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology at the ANU. CAR brings together the expertise of teaching and research staff in Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology at the ANU, within a single coordinating framework.

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