Scientists reconstruct Mediterranean silver trade, from Trojan War to Roman Republic
Scientists have reconstructed the Eastern Mediterranean silver trade, over a period including the traditional dates of the Trojan War, the founding of Rome, and the destruction of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem.
Chickasaws repurposed objects from fleeing Spanish conquistadors
Archaeologists have unearthed a rare trove of more than 80 metal objects in Mississippi, thought to be from Hernando de Soto's 16th-century expedition through the Southeast.
Ornate stone carving discovered at Roman fort near Hadrian’s Wall
Excavations at the Roman fort of Vindolanda in northern England have uncovered a carved stone relief depicting a horseman or Roman deity.
Archaeologists discover 4,400-year-old serpent “staff”
Archaeologists from the University of Turku, in collaboration with the Finnish Heritage Agency, and researchers from the University of Turku and Helsinki have uncovered a stone age wooden “staff” shaped like a serpent.
Use of tobacco pipes by Native groups tells story of regional diversity
Nineteenth- and 20th-century archaeologists often made sweeping claims about Native cultures, suggesting that everyone who lived in a particular region at a given time shared the same attitudes and practices.
Evidence of trees and vegetables suggests that ancient Maya had parks
The ancient Maya city of Tikal was a bustling metropolis and home to tens of thousands of people.
Plague in Medieval Cambridge
DNA analysis has revealed the presence of ‘Yersinia Pestis’ – the pathogen that causes plague – in skeletal remains from individual burials in medieval Cambridgeshire, confirming for the first time that not all plague victims were buried in mass graves.
Underwater archaeology team finds ancient obsidian flakes 2,000 miles from quarry
An underwater archaeologist from The University of Texas at Arlington is part of a research team studying 9,000-year-old stone tool artifacts discovered in Lake Huron that originated from an obsidian quarry more than 2,000 miles away in central Oregon.
Unique Viking textiles found in woman’s grave
To an untrained eye, the artefact looks brown and dull, but it is actually something very special: embroidered wool fabric more than 1000 years old, preserved on top of a turtle brooch.
The first Iberian lead plate found in a regulated excavation in the Pico de los Ajos in Yátova is in archaic writing
A multidisciplinary research team from the University of Valencia (UV), the Prehistory Museum of Valencia (MPV) and the University of Barcelona (UB) has published a study detailing their discovery and interpretation of a lead plate with Iberian writing, the first one obtained in a regulated excavation in Pico de los Ajos (Yátova), one of the most important Iberian sites.
Large residential area discovered at Ringheiligtum Pömmelte, the “German Stonehenge”
Ringheiligtum Pömmelte is a late Neolithic, Early Bronze Age henge monument from the late third millennium BC. The site was discovered in 1991 through aerial photography near the present-day village of Pömmelte in the district Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Researchers link ancient wooden structure to water ritual
The Noceto Vasca Votiva is a unique wood structure that was unearthed on a small hill in northern Italy in 2005.
Archaeologists unveil 7,000-year-old seal impressions used for commerce and protection of property
A team of archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) made a rare discovery when they unearthed a small clay seal impression dating back some 7000 years.
Study sheds light on pre-Columbian life in understudied area of SW Amazon
A new study co-authored by University of Central Florida researchers shows that pre-Columbian people of a culturally diverse but not well-documented area of the Amazon in South America significantly altered their landscape thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
Archaeologists uncover lost Indigenous NE Florida settlement of Sarabay
he University of North Florida archaeology team is now fairly confident they have located the lost Indigenous northeast Florida community of Sarabay, a settlement mentioned in both French and Spanish documents dating to the 1560s but had not been discovered until now.
