Archaeology
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5.3KPacific rats trace 2,000 years of human impact on island ecosystems
Chemical analysis of the remains of rats from archaeological sites spanning the last 2000 years on three Polynesian island systems has shown...
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5.7KOld Maori village discovered by Otago archaeologists
A group of University of Otago archaeologists have uncovered the peripheries of a 14th century Māori village in Gisborne, New Zealand.
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8.3KHats on for Easter Island statues
How do you put a 13-ton hat on a giant statue? That's what a team of researchers is trying to figure out...
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6.6KRoman decapitated and crushed by block of stone while fleeing eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii
Pompeii was an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples, Italy that was mostly destroyed and buried under 4 to 6 m (13...
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8.0KAlong Alaska’s Pacific coast, early humans could have migrated to the Americas
New dating of rocks and reanalysis of animal bones from islands along the shore of southeastern Alaska suggests that a narrow corridor...
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10.5KThe Roman dead: new techniques are revealing just how diverse Roman Britain was
New research has rubbished our perception of it as a region inhabited solely by white Europeans. Roman Britain was actually a highly multicultural...
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10.4KULB archaeologists dicover a 1,000-year-old-mummy in Peru
Researchers from the Université libre de Bruxelles's centre for archaeological research (CReA-Patrimoine) has announced the discovery of a well-preserved Inca mummy at...
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8.5KAncient mound builders carefully timed their occupation of coastal Louisiana site
A study of ancient mound builders who lived hundreds of years ago on the Mississippi River Delta near present-day New Orleans offers...
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8.8KAncient human remains and a mystery unearthed by ANU archaeologist
An archaeologist from The Australian National University (ANU) has hailed her excavation of a Bronze Age burial mound in south west England...
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5.4KArchaeologists uncover earliest evidence for equid bit wear in the ancient Near East
An international team of archaeologists has uncovered the earliest example of the use of a bridle bit with an equid (horse family)...
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7.1KA shipwreck and an 800-year-old ‘made in China’ label reveal lost history
Centuries ago, a ship sank in the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia. The wooden hull disintegrated over time, leaving only...
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20.1KThe 7 Viking Ring Forts – Trelleborg
A trelleborg or ring fort was a circular fortification built across Denmark and Sweden during the Viking age. Similar structures have been found...
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8.4KRoman temple from reign of Emperor Antonius Pius discovered in Egypt
An archaeological project by the Ministry of Antiquities in Egypt has announced the discovery of a Roman temple from the 2nd century...
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9.3KKenyan cave sheds new light on dawn of modern man
Forty-eight thousand year-old crayons and shell beads were among a treasure trove of items unearthed by archaeologists at a cave in Kenya.
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36.1KCuneiform tablets from Bassetki reveal location of ancient royal city of Mardaman
Assyrian clay tablets from the 2nd millennium BC link excavation site to important commercial city
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16.6KFinding out about the history of Basque whalers by studying pottery fragments
A piece of work by the IBeA research group in the UPV/EHU’s Department of Analytical Chemistry confirms that ceramic vessels found on...
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10.3K78,000 year cave record from East Africa shows early cultural innovations
An international, interdisciplinary group of scholars working along the East African coast have discovered a major cave site which records substantial activities...
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6.2KRhino fossil rewrites the earliest human history of the Philippines
A dig in Luzon, an island in the northern Philippines, has uncovered fossils of an “Ice Age” rhinoceros that was butchered around...
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