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…
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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,…
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…
Springtime, the season of new beginnings, ended the 165-million-year reign of dinosaurs and changed the course of evolution on Earth. Credit: Florida Atlantic University/Getty Images…
A red paint sample taken from a 1,000-year-old mask excavated from a Sicán tomb in Peru contains human blood and bird egg proteins, in addition…
An adult and two juvenile individuals of the dinosaur Tethyshadros insularis showing the different appearances exhibited by immature and mature specimens in the ancient environment…
A member of the team from University of Leicester Archaeological Services during the excavations of a large mosaic in Rutland, UK. Credit: Historic England Archaeologists…
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…
Rare boomerang collection from Cooper Creek (Kinipapa) near Innamincka in South Australia’s far north-east. Credit: Photograph courtesy of the Yandruwandha Yawarrawarrka Traditional Land Owners Aboriginal…
Artistic reconstruction of a Mussaurus patagonicus nest. Credit: Jorge Gonzalez New research on a vast fossil site in Patagonia shows that some of the earliest…
Artistic reconstruction of a Mussaurus patagonicus nest. Credit: Jorge Gonzalez Fossils indicate a communal nesting ground and adults who foraged and took care of the…
Modern tree sculpture of a Viking. Columbus was not the first European to reach the Americas. The Vikings got there centuries beforehand, although exactly when…
Jomon teeth vs Native American teeth. Credit: G. Richard Scott, University of Nevada Reno Latest scientific findings suggest the ancestral Native American population does not…
The illustration above shows the core features of the Poverty Point site in northern Louisiana. The green to the right is the Mississippi River flood…
Tropical forests regularly appear in the news as the front line of climate change and human sustainability challenges. They are some of the most threatened…
A handaxe from the Thar Desert, where Acheulean populations persisted until at least 177 thousand years ago. Credit: Jimbob Blinkhorn The longest lasting tool-making tradition…
Horses of the Eurasian steppe. Credit: A. Senokosov From the Xiongnu to the Mongols, the pastoralist populations of the Eurasian steppe have long been a…