Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, providing the earliest evidence of human activity in the Americas. Credit: Cornell University Newly discovered…
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As early as 18,000 years ago, humans in New Guinea may have collected cassowary eggs near maturity and then raised the birds to adulthood, according…
Thomas Urban conducts magnetometer survey of mammoth footprints at White Sands. Credit: David Busto Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico provide…
Current excavations at Bacho Kiro Cave of the 2021 season are unearthing new artifacts from the Middle Palaeolithic Neanderthal occupations. The Initial Upper Palaeolithic Layer…
Bone tools excavated from Castel di Guido in Italy. Credit: Villa et al. 2021 PLOS ONE Ancient humans could do some impressive things with elephant…
The dispersal of the Vishnuonyx otters from the Indian subcontinent to Africa and Europe about 13 million years ago. The star (HAM 4) shows the…
Tyrannosaurus rex, the fearsome predator that once roamed what is now western North America, appears to have had an East Coast cousin. A new study…
Painted pottery vessels for serving drinks and food. Credit: Image by Jiajing Wang Pottery vessels which had contained beer, found with human remains in platform…
Machu Picchu, Peru. Machu Picchu, the famous 15th-century Inca site in southern Peru, is up to several decades older than previously thought, according to a…
Excavations at Tel Tifdan / Wadi Fidan. Credit: Thomas E. Levy International research by Tel Aviv University, the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome,…
Aerial view of the Palazzo della Cancelleria, the cemetery has been dug in the central courtyard. Credit: Hebrew University of Jerusalem Lead found in 12,000…
The mummified sheep leg from which DNA was obtained. Image courtesy of Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum and Zanjan Cultural Heritage Centre, Archaeological Museum of Zanjan. Credit:…
Moai statuary on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York suggests that the demographic collapse at the core…
Kennewick Man skull at the Natural History Museum, Karlsruhe. Credit: Ghedoghedo (CC BY-SA 4.0) A ball of 4,000-year-old hair frozen in time tangled around a…
Document analyzed as part of the study. Credit: Dave Lee Sheepskin may have been the preferred parchment for use in legal documents in Britain between…
Mandible of small antelope in calcrete. Credit: Philip Kiberd Evidence from an ancient eggshell has revealed important new information about the extreme climate change faced…
Landscape views of scatters of qubbas around the Jebel Maman. Credit: Stefano Costanzo (CC-BY 4.0) Statistical methods designed for cosmology reveal tomb distribution in Sudan…
A Hacksilber hoard dated to the middle of the eleventh century BCE found by the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon. Credit: We are grateful to…
Artist’s impression of a Squalicorax shark. Credit: Dimitri Bogdanov Scientists have found an unexplained cache of fossilized shark teeth in an area where there should…