Wednesday, April 13, 2022

The Greek Origins of Marseille, France’s Oldest City

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The Greek origins of Marseille. Credit: Christophe.Finot, CC BY-SA 3.0/Wikimedia Commons The huge port city of Marseille in southern France ...

New Thoughts on the Peopling of Eurasia

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BOLOGNA, ITALY—According to a statement released by the University of Bologna, Leonardo Vallini, Luca Pagani, and Telmo Pievani of the Unive...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Child’s tooth ‘earliest known evidence of modern humans in western Europe’

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The fossil of a child’s tooth is the earliest known evidence of modern humans in western Europe researchers say. The discovery of the molar ...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Ancient humans may have started hunting 2 million years ago

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Notches on a bone left by human butchering activity Jennifer A. Parkinson, Thomas W. Plummer, James S. Oliver, Laura C. Bishop Ancient human...

Neolithic cattle site could change understanding of what beef meant to people of Ireland

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Credit: University College Dublin An archaeological site in Dublin with an unusually large collection of cattle remains could potentially ch...
Monday, January 10, 2022

3,000-Year-Old Remains Of Badass Women Warriors Found In Armenian Cemetery

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More than three millennia ago, across the Mediterranean and Near East, society collapsed. Previously stable dominant empires and civilizatio...

Hunter-Gatherer Sites in Sweden Yield Metalworking Artifacts

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LULEÅ, SWEDEN—Evidence of metalworking some 2,000 years ago by hunter-gatherers has been discovered at two archaeological sites in northeast...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Five ice-age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220,000 years

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Sir David Attenborough with some of the mammoth bones found in the gravel quarry near Swindon. Photograph: Julian Schwanitz/BBC/Windfall Fil...

Neanderthals Changed Ecosystems 125,000 Years Ago – Were Not “Primal Hippies

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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 ...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

Get up close to Skara Brae with new 3D model of 5,000-year-old settlement

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The interior of House Seven at Skara Brae. Although this structure has been closed to the public since 2006, the new 3D model allows virtual...

The objects that help us understand Stonehenge

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Bronze Age sun pendant, 1000–800BC © The Trustees of the British Museum The British Museum’s major Stonehenge exhibition sees over 430 objec...

Early Humans May Have Transformed Their Surroundings

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(Leiden University) LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS—UPI reports that hundreds of butchered animal bones, some 20,000 stone artifacts, and evidence o...

Neanderthals, the Original Gardeners, Intentionally Altered the Landscape as Much as 125,000 Years Ago, a Study Finds

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Archaeological site at Neumark-Nord in Germany. Courtesy Wil Roebroeks, Leiden University. Hunter-gatherers were making changes to the ecosy...
Monday, December 13, 2021

Spectacular 3D Video Depicts Ancient Athens as Never Seen Before

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A realistic reconstruction of ancient Athens. Credit: Ancient Athens 3D A spectacular 3D video reconstruction of ancient Athens in the late ...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

At least 2 hominin species lived at Laetoli site 3.6 million years ago

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A human relative left these five tracks in a 3.6 million-year-old layer of sediment at the Laetoli Fossil site in Tanzania. The first eviden...
Monday, November 15, 2021

12 Types Of Extinct Human Species And How They Differ

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Today, Homo sapiens are the only type of humans on Earth. However, we modern humans are just the most recent of many other human species tha...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

A Danish man found buried treasure from the Iron Age using a metal detector, just hours after turning it on for the first time

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  Gold medallions, coins, and jewelry comprise an Iron Age hoard that a rookie metal detectorist recently discovered in Denmark. Conservat...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Whence the White Horse of Uffington?

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  The White Horse of Uffington, a spectacular chalk figure on an English hillside, challenges the very idea of “heritage” as an unbroken l...

Was 536 AD the worst year in history?

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  Archaeologists working in Bacho Kiro Cave earlier this year. Image: Tsenka Tsanova, MPI-EVA Leipzig, License: CC-BY-SA 2.0 Europe was con...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Spanish cave art was made by Neanderthals, study confirms

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  . A general view (left), medium close-up (middle) and extreme close up of a partly coloured stalagmite tower in the Spanish cave of Ardale...