Avocado cultivation’s origins hold lessons for a changing climate
New research from anthropologists Amber VanDerwarker and Doug Kennett of UC Santa Barbara elucidates the history of avocado domestication.
Of puppets and puppeteers
Jan Szymański and Gabriela Prejs have published a paper about Preclassic clay figurines from San Isidro, El Salvador.
‘You don’t just throw them in a box’
Two years ago, Chance Ward began opening boxes of horse remains that had been shipped to the CU Museum of Natural History from other institutions around the country. What he saw made his heart sink.
Innovative ancient burial site found to be older than Stonehenge
New research reveals Flagstones in Dorset dates to 3,200 years BC and sheds new light on the origins of monumental architecture during the Neolithic period.
Phoenician and Punic language training
Organised by the Institute of Classical Studies, the Faculty of Linguistics and the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies of Oxford University.
Fully-funded PhD Late Antiquity
Cardiff University (Wales, UK) is offering a fully funded full-time PhD on the theme of Health and Healing in Late Antiquity.
Maria van Oosterwijck’s masterpiece at the Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum is displaying a recently acquired still life by Maria van Oosterwijck in the Gallery of Honour.
Climate change and degradation of archaeological environments
The project aims to identify links between climate change and the increasing degradation of archaeological cultural environments in Svalbard.
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Pompeii: Discovery of a room with frescoes
An extremely rare “megalography” of the 1st century BC, like the famous Villa of the Mysteries.
Two Lecturer Positions at the University of California, Davis
The Classics Program at the UC Davis, invites applicants for 2 full-time lecturer appointments beginning academic year 2025-26.
Early development of abstract reasoning in human ancestors
Oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning.
Lecturer in Ancient History
The University of Leeds is appointing a Lecturer in Ancient History. This is a full-time Teaching and Research post.
Discovery of first Bronze Age settlement in the Maghreb
Excavations at Kach Kouch, located in northwest Morocco, reveal a human occupation datable to between 2200 and 600 BC.
Rare civil war defences at Sheffield Castle
Excavations at Sheffield Castle have unearthed the first surviving examples of 17th-century defensive stakes.
Ancient Egyptian jewelry discovered in Karnak Temple
Jewelry dating back to the early 26th Dynasty has been uncovered in the northwestern sector of the Karnak Temple complex.
Oldest carvel-built ship from the Nordic countries discovered
Maritime archaeologists from the Vrak have investigated a shipwreck that may be the oldest known carvel-built vessel from the Nordic region.
A gold processing complex at Jabal Sukari
The findings provide valuable insights into the social, religious, and economic lives of gold miners in historical desert settlements.
Return of 11 antiquities to the people of Greece
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. announced the return of 11 antiquities collectively valued at nearly $1 million to Greece.
The Met returns ancient bronze head of a griffin to Greece
The return is supported by collaborative research revealing that it illegitimately left the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in the 1930s.
Viking skulls reveal severe morbidity
The results presented in British Dental Journal Open suggest that the fifteen individuals whose skulls were examined suffered from a broad range of diseases.
Ancient human remains of Bellaghy likely to be female
The “Ballymacombs More Woman” is an exceptionally rare discovery of an Iron Age female bog-preserved remains.
Iron Age divination spoon found on the Isle of Man
A 2000 year-old bronze spoon believed to have been used for ‘telling the future’ has been discovered on the West Coast of the Isle of Man.
Clues of advanced ancient technology
The ancient peoples of the Philippines and of ISEA may have built sophisticated boats and mastered seafaring tens of thousands of years ago.
Viking Dynasties
The authors present the state of the art in our understanding of the dynasties that would reshape theNorthern world.