Hunter-gatherers experimented with farming in Turkey before migrating to Europe
Clusters of hunter-gatherers spent much of the late Stone Age working out the basics of farming on the fertile lands of what is now Turkey before taking this knowledge to Europe.
New finding helps understand feeding ecology of Pleistocene proboscideans
Recently, a Sino-British team of palaeontologists explored the feeding ecology of Chinese proboscideans from different Pleistocene stages, using cutting-edge 3D dental microwear texture analysis.
University of Leicester discovery sheds light on how vertebrates see
Discovery identifies details in eyes of 300-million-year-old lamprey and hagfish fossils.
Bronze Age underwater site Pavlopetri at risk
As Pavlopetri is threatened by pollution and looting, authorities now take steps to promote the site.
Scientists scan most complete Heterodontosaurus skeleton ever found
The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) had an extraordinary and ancient visitor last week: the most complete fossil skeleton ever found of the small plant-eating dinosaur, heterondontosaurus tucki.
Tracking down the first chefs
A piece of research by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country establishes the bases that can be used to differentiate between bones eaten by humans and those eaten by animals among the bones found on archaeological sites.
The great evolutionary smoke out: An advantage for modern humans?
A genetic mutation may have helped modern humans adapt to smoke exposure from fires and perhaps sparked an evolutionary advantage over Neandertals.
Population boom preceded early farming
A population boom and scarce food explain why people in eastern North America domesticated plants for the first time on the continent about 5,000 years ago
Tooth wear sheds light on the feeding habits of ancient elephant relatives
For the first time, the changing diets of elephants in the last two million years in China have been reconstructed, using a technique based on analysis of the surface textures of their teeth.
Aerial technology is transforming understanding of the past
A Roman camp in Dorset, a Neolithic henge in East Yorkshire and a Bronze Age cemetery in West Sussex are among the amazing archaeological sites Historic England has discovered from the air.
First World War submarine wreck sites protected
British and German submarines from the First World War have been made Protected Historic Wreck Sites.
St. Paul Island mammoths most accurately dated ‘prehistoric’ extinction ever
While the Minoan culture on Crete was just beginning, woolly mammoths were disappearing from St. Paul Island, Alaska...
Orangutan gives clues to the origins of human speech
An orangutan called Rocky could provide the key to understanding how speech in humans evolved from the time of the ancestral great apes.
American student finds rare brooch in Ireland
An American film student at New York University stumbled upon a rare 12th century kite brooch during a field trip in Ireland earlier this month.
Evidence found for first monastery on Lindisfarne
Experts from the Department of Archaeology at Durham University and the crowd-funded archaeology platform DigVentures have found what they believe to be evidence of the earliest monastery on The Holy Island of Lindisfarne in Northumberland, UK.
Riddle of defensive structures of the Middle Nile solved
Polish archaeologists have confirmed the defensive function of the monumental structures at the Middle Nile.
Neanderthal brains grew in patterns similar to ours
A new study of Neanderthal skulls yields similarities with ours in the way they grew.
Cancer on a Paleo-diet?
Evidence of earliest cancer in homonin record found on South African fossils.
DNA analyses reveal genetic identities of world’s first farmers
Harvard-led research reshapes understanding of genetic heritage of modern West Eurasians.
Ceres figurine found in South Shields
A beautifully crafted miniature bronze figure of the Roman goddess Ceres was found by volunteers from the WallQuest community archaeology project.
Hala Sultan Tekke reveals its treasures
The Swedish Cyprus Expedition excavations at the Late Bronze Age site of Dromolaxia-Vizakia (Hala Sultan Tekke), close to Larnaca International Airportand the famous homonymous mosque, continued to expose City Quarter 1 (CQ1).
Impressive 1,600-year-old pottery kiln exposed in the Western Galilee
The kiln is the only one known to date in the country to have been hewn entirely in bedrock. It was exposed in archaeological excavations of the Israel Antiquities Authority prior to the construction of a new residential quarter.
Ancient temples in the Himalaya reveal signs of past earthquakes
Researchers show how the signs of destructive earthquakes are imprinted upon the ancient stone and wooden temples.
Studying the architecture, inscriptions and pottery on Geronisos
Ostraca, inscriptions, an Ionic temple, rock cut tombs and pottery were studied during the latest expedition on Geronisos island.