A new study suggests that dogs may have first successfully migrated to the Americas only about 10,000 years ago, thousands of years after the first human migrants crossed a land bridge from Siberia to North America.
The 2014 excavation season has brought to light new data regarding the architectural remains of the Epipalaeolithic mountainous site of Vretsia/Ayios Ioannis - Roudias in the Troodos Mountains as well as its lithic technology.
A University of Cincinnati doctoral student and a doctoral student in archaeology at Boston University are taking a new twist on long-published research about what an ancient civilization did for a living.
Next Monday (January 12th) the ancient city of Amathus and its necropolises will be presented at the Museum of Cycladic Art in the framework of the Cyprus Seminar series.
Archaeologists from the University of Basel discovered eggs of intestinal parasites in samples from the former Celtic settlement, and concluded that its population lived in poor sanitary conditions.
Latest analysis of prehistoric bones show there is no anatomical reason why a person born today could not develop the skeletal strength of a prehistoric forager or a modern orangutan.
Scientists have discovered the oldest recorded stone tool ever to be found in Turkey, revealing that humans passed through the gateway from Asia to Europe much earlier than previously thought.
How the Deccan Traps contributed to the latest Cretaceous environmental change and biologic turnover that culminated in the marine and terrestrial mass extinctions.
An impressive 2,800-year-old farm house, which comprised 23 rooms, was exposed recently during archaeological excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in Rosh Ha-‘Ayin.
The traditional villages of Epirus’ Zagori will be officially sponsored by the Greek Ministry of Culture as a Greek “cultural landscape” to be added to the UNESCO World Heritage list.
The ENS de Lyon and its partners offer scholarships for international students to enrol in its Masters programs in the Exact Sciences, the Arts, and Human and Social Sciences.
The Department of Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London, invites proposals for Leverhulme Early-Career Fellowships (commencing 2015-16, for three years).
An interdisciplinary team is conducting forensic studies on the skeletal remains. Recently circulated information about the identity of the skeleton were "unfounded," said the Ministry of Culture.
Archaeologists from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Archaeology have discovered a monumental entryway to the Herodian Hilltop Palace at the Herodium National Park.
Two days ago the international media reported about a million mummies cemetery revealed in Fayoum by US-mission. The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities described the reports "rumors".
The Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) at the Central European University (CEU) Budapest/Hungary invites applications for a 2 Year Research and Teaching Fellowship in Classical Studies.
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture issued "guidelines" about the dissemination of information relating to archaeological finds to all international, national and local media.
Four of six major archaeological sites in Syria have been heavily looted and damaged, according to a AAAS analysis of high-resolution satellite images.
The course is an excellent introduction for students already on a research degree in archaeological materials, as well as for PD researchers and academics interested in being familiar with ceramic petrology applications.