During tough times, ancient ‘tourists’ sought solace in Florida oyster feasts
More than a thousand years ago, people from across the Southeast regularly traveled to a small island on Florida's Gulf Coast to bond over oysters, likely as a means of coping with climate change and social upheaval.
Archaeologists have a lot of dates wrong for North American indigenous history – but we’re using new techniques to get it right
Columbus famously reached the Americas in 1492. Other Europeans had made the journey before, but the century from then until 1609 marks the creation of the modern globalized world.
Evidence of Late Pleistocene human colonization of isolated islands beyond Wallace’s Line
A new article published in Nature Communications applies stable isotope analysis to a collection of fossil human teeth from the islands of Timor and Alor in Wallacea to study the ecological adaptations of the earliest members of our species to reach this isolated part of the world.
X-ray analysis sheds light on construction and conservation of artefacts from Henry VIII’s warship
21st century X-ray technology has allowed University of Warwick scientists to peer back through time at the production of the armour worn by the crew of Henry VIII's favoured warship, the Mary Rose.
Bronze Age swords bear the marks of skilled fighters
Warriors during the Bronze Age used their weapons in skilful ways that would have required lots of training in specific techniques, researchers say.
Unique Bone Figurine Discovered in One of World`s Oldest Cities
Polish researcher discovered a human-like figurine in one of the oldest cities in the world: Çatalhöyük in Turkey.
Study traces spread of early dairy farming across Western Europe
A study has tracked the shift from hunter-gatherer lifestyles to early farming that occurred in prehistoric Europe over a period of around 1,500 years.
Bones in homes: Residents of prehistoric settlements were buried in their own homes
Residents of an 8,000-year-old prehistoric proto-city could be buried in the houses where they lived, according to grim new research.
Farmer Finds Roman Treasure Trove Scattered Across Field
A farmer has discovered one of the largest hauls of Roman coins to ever be found in Poland.
Polish Scientists Discover 1,000-Year-Old Church Walls in Ethiopia
The walls of a 1,000-year-old church in Ethiopia have been discovered by archaeologists from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw.
Diverse livelihoods helped resilient Levänluhta people survive a climate disaster
A multidisciplinary research group coordinated by the University of Helsinki dated the bones of dozens of Iron Age residents of the Levänluhta site in Finland, and studied the carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios.
Archaeologists verify Florida’s Mound Key as location of elusive Spanish fort
Florida and Georgia archaeologists have discovered the location of Fort San Antón de Carlos, home of one of the first Jesuit missions in North America.
William Shakespeare: archaeology is revealing new clues about the Bard’s life (and death)
William Shakespeare is widely regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time and one of the most important and influential people who has ever lived.
Study sheds light on unique culinary traditions of prehistoric hunter-gatherers
Hunter-gatherer groups living in the Baltic between seven and a half and six thousand years ago had culturally distinct cuisines, analysis of ancient pottery fragments has revealed.
Study reveals one of the possible uses of spheroids 400,000 ago in the Middle East
Researchers at the National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH) have participated in a study that proposes the possible uses of the spheroids or...
