Genetics show 50 thousand years of independent history of Aboriginal Australian people
The new study challenges a previous theory that suggested an influx of people from India into Australia around 4-5 thousand years ago.
3-D technology used to safely reveal the diet of ‘Chaucer’s children’
Biological anthropologists have discovered a new way of examining the fragile teeth of children who lived between the 11th and 15th centuries without damaging them.
Ancient figurine discovered by 7-year-old boy
A 3,400 year old statue was recently discovered in Israel by a 7-year-old boy while on an outing with friends.
11,000-year-old pendant is earliest known Mesolithic art in Britain
An 11,000 year old engraved shale pendant discovered by archaeologists during excavations at the Early Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire is unique in the UK, according to new research.
Middle Kingdom tomb discovered in Egypt
A joint mission of American and Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a tomb at El-Lisht in the Dahashur necropolis.
Fabric collection discovered dating back to Kings David and Solomon
Textiles found at Timna Valley archaeological dig provide a colorful picture of a complex society.
Evidence of early medieval Muslim graves found in France
Burial rituals, genetic analysis may indicate 8th century skeletons of North African descent.
Internal dissension cited as reason for Cahokia’s dissolution
The archaeologists claim internal conflict by social, political, ethnic, and religious factions are a more reasonable description of events that led to Cahokia's collapse than environmental causes, as is the popular theory.
Remains may be of Martha Brown, the real Tess d’Urbervilles
Human remains unearthed by archaeologists at Dorchester prison, Dorset, may be those of the woman that inspired Thomas Hardy in writing Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
The pyramid complex of a Nubian queen reopens for documentation
Now, almost a century since Reisner’ s work at Khennwua’s pyramid, QMPS has reopened her subterranean burial chamber to document it.
The Dead Sea Scrolls enter into the digital era
Computer scientists and Dead Sea Scrolls scholars are building a digital work environment for the scrolls, enabling the virtual joining of the "puzzle pieces" of thousands of ancient scrolls fragments found in Judean Desert caves.
Spanish conquest left its imprint on men’s genes in Panama
A new genetic study of 408 Panamanian men has revealed that only 22 percent of them carry Y-chromosomes of native origin.
Most complete Bronze Age wheel to date found
Archaeologists working at Must Farm, a Bronze Age site near Peterborough, have uncovered a 3,000-year-old wheel, the first and largest complete example ever to be discovered in Britain.
Fossil analysis pushes back human split from other primates by two million years
C. abyssinicus revealed answers about gorilla lineage but also provided fossil evidence that our common ancestor migrated from Africa.
Researchers trace peanut crop back to its Bolivian roots
Researchers have discovered that a wild plant from Bolivia is a "living relic" of the prehistoric origins of the cultivated peanut species.
Japanese earthenware time capsules contain 4,300-year-old cockroach egg case impressions
Impressions of cockroach egg cases from 4,300 year old Japanese potsherds (broken pottery fragments) have been found in southern Japan.
The world’s oldest woven garment
The Tarkhan Dress, a V-neck linen shirt currently on display in the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, has been confirmed as the world’s oldest woven garment with radiocarbon testing dating the garment to the late fourth-millennium BC.
Vertical burial found in Germany
Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered the remains of a man buried in an upright position at a Mesolithic Era site.
The race to save threatened cultural heritage sites
With sites that are threatened but still intact, like Petra, cyber-archaeology can contribute to ongoing conservation and research goals, and virtually reconstruct ruins to give visitors a glimpse of how they might have looked in the past.
Prehistoric village links old and new stone ages
Archaeologists from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem revealed in Israel a prehistoric village, dated around 12,000 years ago, in excavations in the fertile Jordan Valley.
How hunter-gatherers preserved their food sources
Prey-switching behavior helped stabilize an ecosystem.
A gold mount found in Norfolk puzzles archaeologists
A part of a gold artefact, probably a mount of Early Medieval origin, was found in Norfolk field. The item, a fragment of a larger piece, could have been part of a sword grip.
Remains of fifth millennium BCE settlement found in Jerusalem
Archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority have revealed a 7,000-year-old settlement during construction works of a new road in the Shuʻfat neighborhood in northern Jerusalem.
Neanderthals mated with modern humans much earlier than previously thought
First genetic evidence of a scenario in which early modern humans left the African continent and mixed with archaic (now-extinct) members of the human family prior to the migration “out of Africa”.