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.
Environment & Religion in Ancient and Coptic Egypt
The conference “Environment & Religion in Ancient and Coptic Egypt: Sensing the Cosmos through the eyes of the divine” will take place in Athens, Greece, on Wednesday 1, Thursday 2 and Friday 3 February 2017.
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.
Bronze Age and Early Iron Age handmade pottery from Central Epirus
After recording and classifying the material in categories, seven of these were recognized; ceramics with decoration that was plastic, incised, impressed, monochrome, orange red, matt painted and orange red with written black polished decoration.
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”.
Atheism is as natural to humans as religion, ancient history suggests
People in the ancient world did not always believe in the gods, a new study suggests – casting doubt on the idea that religious belief is a “default setting” for humans.
Bronze Age human remains come under scrutiny by archaeologist
The remains of a young woman who died more than 3,700 years ago, found in 1987, should be examined with new technologies, archaeologist Maya Hoole claims.
Recreating the Throne of Egyptian Queen Hetepheres
An interdisciplinary collaboration at Harvard University has created a full-scale reproduction of an ancient throne belonging to Queen Hetepheres.
Eternal 5D data storage could record the history of humankind
Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.
Second Clovis people kill site found in New Mexico
It began with a man walking along a shallow wash near Abiquiu, New Mexico one afternoon and noticing some flakes of what looked like bone.