A string of modern ostrich eggshell beads from eastern Africa. Credit: Hans Sell New archeological study shows ancient connection between populations 3,000 km apart, and…
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A photograph of the skeleton of one of the four individuals who we have sequenced who we think is likely to have participated in the…
Credit: Leiden University In Bronze Age Europe many bronze objects such as axes, swords, and jewels were deliberately left at specific spots in the landscape.…
A mummified adult man of the Ansilta culture, from the Andes of San Juan, Argentina, dating back approx 2,000 years. Credit: Universidad Nacional de San…
A photograph of the skeleton of one of the four individuals who we have sequenced who we think is likely to have participated in the…
Facemask of the never-before unwrapped mummy of pharaoh Amenhotep I. Credit: S. Saleem and Z. Hawass Study shows that 21st dynasty restorers ‘lovingly restored’ mummy,…
Sampling of an undisturbed block of impregnated sediment for ancient DNA analyses. Credit: MPI f. Evolutionary Anthropology Ancient human and animal DNADNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid,…
Hazleton Long Barrow. Credit: Courtesy of Corinium Museum, copyright Cotswold District Council Analysis of ancient DNADNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two…
Floating platform from which the researchers from the University of Bonn took drill cores from the lake sediment on Lake Iznik (Turkey) and determined the…
Hunter-gatherers caused ecosystems to change 125,000 years ago. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study by archaeologists from Leiden University in collaboration with other…
Jamie Hodgkins, lead researcher, and team at the burial discovery site in Italy. Credit: Jamie Hodkins, PhD, CU Denver Working in a cave in Liguria,…
Cooperation and aggression. Meerkats are showing us that one may not be possible without the other. In a study appearing this week in the journal…
The mouth of the Arma Veirana cave, a site in the Ligurian mountains of northwestern Italy. Credit: Dominique Meyer Ten thousand years ago, just after…
Stalagmites in caves located southwest of the excavation site show a climatic cause for the collapse of the ancient Chinese Liangzhu culture. Credit: Haiwei Zhang…
This piece of cloth is from the Stone Age. For 60 years, academics have debated whether it is made of wool or linen. So what…
Mummies in the Catacombs of the Capuchins in Palermo, Italy. The first ever comprehensive study of mummified children in Sicily’s famous Capuchin Catacombs is being…
Tikal, the ruins of an ancient city, is one of the most famous archeological sites of Maya civilization. The discovery shifts researchers’ understanding of the…
Kit Hamley holds a large male sea lion skull from a bone pile at New Island. Dozens of individual sea lions were present throughout the…
A reconstruction of the skull of Leti, the first Homo naledi child whose remains were found in the Rising Star cave in Johannesburg. Credit: Wits…
Homo bodoensis, a new species of human ancestor, lived in Africa during the Middle Pleistocene. Credit: Ettore Mazza An international team of researchers, led by…