Livestock pens approximately 5,000 years old in Álava, Spain
Researchers combined geoarchaeological and palaeobotanical data to answer questions about livestock shelters of the early Chalcolithic in Álava and the practices people were engaged in within these enclosures.
Old World metals traded on Alaska coast hundreds of years before contact with Europeans
Two leaded bronze artifacts found in northwestern Alaska are the first evidence that metal from Asia reached prehistoric North America prior to contact with Europeans.
On common ground: Liverpool and Palmyra, World Heritage in danger
A University of Kent heritage lawyer warns that the Maritime Mercantile City of Liverpool is on UNESCO's List of World Heritage in Danger.
Lucy had neighbors: A review of African fossils
If "Lucy" wasn't alone, who else was in her neighborhood? Key fossil discoveries over the last few decades in Africa indicate that multiple early human ancestor species lived at the same time more than 3 million years ago.
Research proves Aboriginal Australians were first inhabitants
Griffith University researchers have found evidence that demonstrates Aboriginal people were the first to inhabit Australia.
Inbred Neanderthals left humans a genetic burden
Non-African human populations today have marginally lower fitness thanks to Neanderthal inheritance.
New support for human evolution in grasslands
Buried deep in seabed sediments off east Africa, scientists have uncovered a 24-million-year record of vegetation trends in the region where humans evolved.
Ice age bison fossils shed light on early human migrations in North America
Study dates the first movements of bison through an ice-free corridor that opened between the ice sheets after the last glacial maximum.
“Pristine” landscapes haven’t existed for thousands of years due to human activity
An exhaustive review of archaeological data from the last 30 years provides details of how the world's landscapes have been shaped by repeated human activity over many thousands of years.
Did dinosaurs have lips?
Can a crocodile’s smile reveal whether dinosaurs had lips? What if lips and gums hid most of dinosaur's teeth?
A national plan to excavate the Judean Desert caves
The Israel Antiquities Authority is promoting a national plan for comprehensive archaeological excavations in the Judean Desert caves, and rescuing the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Works from the Louvre are moved due to flood
Works of art kept at underground reserves of the Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay are moved to higher levels due to floods.
Underwater ‘lost city’ found to be geological formation
When underwater divers discovered what looked like paved floors, courtyards and colonnades, they thought they had found the ruins of a long-forgotten civilization that perished when tidal waves hit the shores of the Greek holiday island Zakynthos...
Dogs were domesticated not once, but twice…
New research shows that man's best friend may have emerged independently from two separate (possibly now extinct) wolf populations that lived on opposite sides of the Eurasian continent.
How southeastern Mayan people overcame the catastrophic eruption of Ilpango?
Researchers discovered a Great Platform built with different kinds of stone at the archeological site of San Andrés, El Salvador, and challenged the prevailing theory regarding the sociocultural development of Southeastern Maya frontier.
King Tut’s dagger was made of meteorite iron
A new study shows that a dagger from King Tutankhamun's tomb was made from meteorite material.
Archaeological research into Britain’s oldest hand-written documents released
Archaeologists from MOLA have published research into Britain’s largest, earliest and most significant collection of Roman waxed writing tablets.
Ancient Wari Empire likely did not cause large shifts in population genetic diversity
Wari imperialism probably exerted through cultural diffusion, not population replacement.
French cave sheds new light on the Neanderthals
Deep inside Bruniquel Cave, in the Tarn et Garonne region of southwestern France, a set of man-made structures 336 meters from the entrance was recently dated as being approximately 176,500 years old.
Iron Age skeletal remains gifted to Isle of Wight Museum
The prehistoric remains of a woman discovered about a year ago on the Isle of Wight have been gifted to the Isle of Wight Museum.
What were Aegean texts for?
The lecture by John Bennett will take place at the British School at Athens, as part of the Annual Meeting of Aegeus.
The high-tech 3D mapping of Homo naledi’s Dinaledi chamber
In 2013, after the discovery of the hominin assemblage, Berger put a call out for "skinny" explorers to join him on the expedition to excavate what became known as the Dinaledi Chamber...
New Cretaceous fossils shed light on the early evolution of ants
Recent studies suggest that the early branching lineages of extant ants formed small colonies of either subterranean or epigeic, solitary specialist predators.
An experiment might explain the transport of Stonehenge blocks
An experiment by University College London tried to provide an answer to the question of how Stonehenge was built.