The newly discovered circular earthwork enclosure La Loma del Real Tesoro II (near Carmona).Credit: SFB 1070 RessourcenKulturen, Javier Escudero Carrillo and Helmut Becker
Archaeologists from the Tübingen collaborative research center ResourceCultures have discovered an earthwork enclosure in southern Spain dating...
Blade, positive for rhino residue. Credit: April Nowell.
How smart were human-like species of the Stone Age? New research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science by a team led by paleoanthropologist April Nowell of the University of Victoria reveals...
Fourteen skeletons of victims killed by earthquake in Cave dwelling F4 at Lajia site excavated in 2000. Credit: Cai Linhai
Geologists have found the first evidence for China's Great Flood, a 4,000-year-old disaster on the Yellow River that led to...
New studies offer insight into the people who lived, died and were buried in mass graves in the pre-Columbian city of Cahokia, near present-day St. Louis. Credit: Image courtesy Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, painting by William R. Iseminger.
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Image showing marks produced by humans when eating meat in the experiment carried out in this research.Credit: Antonio J. Romero / UPV/EHU
Archaeological sites speak about the everyday lives of people in other times. Yet knowing how to interpret this...
Conducting the first large-scale, genome-wide analyses of ancient human remains from the Near East, an international team led by Harvard Medical School has illuminated the genetic identities and population dynamics of the world's first farmers.
The study reveals three genetically...
The monumental Egyptian statute of a high official from the Middle Kingdom in Egypt, found in the administrative palace at Hazor, north of the Sea of Galilee in Israel.Credit: Image courtesy of Hebrew University of Jerusalem
In a historic find,...
Close up of the rope making tool from mammoth ivory from Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany, ca. 40,000 years old. Photo: Copyright University of Tübingen
Prof. Nicholas Conard and members of his team, present the discovery of a tool...
Right: Photograph during excavation exhibiting excellent dry preservation of plant remains. Left: A well-preserved, desiccated barley grain found at Yoram Cave. Credit: Uri Davidovich
An international team of researchers has succeeded for the first time in sequencing the genome of...
Cave discoveries. Credit: University of Leicester
A project led by archaeologists from the British Museum and the University of Leicester has discovered remarkable evidence which shows how the first generations of Europeans to arrive in the Americas engaged with indigenous...
A diver carefully raises an amphora to the surface with a lift bag for further study and analysis.Credit: Vasilis Mentogianis
An expedition to the Fourni archipelago in Greece, co-directed by a University of Southampton (UK) archaeologist, has found 23 new...
