Archaeology News

Scientists can measure population change through chemicals found in feces

Fecal stanols - organic molecules - located in sediment can give archaeologists new information about population numbers and changes, according to new...

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Identifying the use of tinder fungi among neolithic communities at la Draga

Inhabitants of the Neolithic community at la Draga (Banyoles, Girona) already used fungi to light or transport fires 7300 years ago.

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Purdue archaeologists on ancient horse find in Nile River Valley

An ancient horse burial at Tombos along the Nile River Valley shows that a member of the horse family thousands of years...

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Rare German U-boat found in Skagerrak

Sea War Museum Jutland in Thyborøn, Denmark has made a new sensational discovery during its continued registration of shipwrecks in the North...

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Major International Archaeology Projects Commence in Orkney

The island of Rousay in Orkney is renowned for the wealth of its archaeology; so much so that it is known as...

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New Nasca lines found in Peru

Thanks to the latest advances in space archaeology and aerial drone surveys, archaeologists have discovered 50 new examples of Nasca and Paracas...

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Oldest Neanderthal wood tools in the Iberian Peninsula discovered

Archaeological excavations at Aranbaltza site in the Basque Country coast (Northern Spain), have revealed several episodes of neandertal occupations with preserved wooden...

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Spear points prove early inhabitants liked to travel

Careful examination of numerous fluted spear points found in Alaska and western Canada prove that the Ice Age peopling of the Americas...

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Archaeologist discovers Cornish barrow site

An Archaeologist at The Australian National University (ANU) has discovered a prehistoric Bronze-Age barrow, or burial mound, on a hill in Cornwall...

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Glastonbury: archaeology is revealing new truths about the origins of British Christianity

New archaeological research on Glastonbury Abbey pushes back the date for the earliest settlement of the site by 200 years – and...

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We’re mapping wartime shipwrecks to explore the past – and help develop green energy projects

Wartime shipwrecks such as the USS Juneau – recently discovered in the Pacific Ocean by philanthropist Paul Allen and his team – are of...

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Archaeology shines light on 6,000 years of history

A Roman trade distribution centre, an abandoned medieval village and three prehistoric monuments are among nationally significant archaeological discoveries uncovered by the...

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Parts of the Amazon thought uninhabited were actually home to up to a million people

Parts of the Amazon previously thought to have been almost uninhabited were really home to thriving populations of up to a million...

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Skilled female potters travelled around the Baltic nearly 5000 years ago

Was it the fine pottery itself, or the artisans who made it, that moved around the Baltic Sea region during the Corded...

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Mysterious head of a pharaoh discovered by Swansea Egyptologist

Swansea University Egyptology lecturer Dr Ken Griffin has found a depiction of one of the most famous pharaoh's in history Hatshepsut (one...

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From the pyramids to Stonehenge – were prehistoric people astronomers?

Ever since humans could look up to see the sky, we have been amazed by its beauty and untold mysteries. Naturally then,...

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How we recreated a lost African city with laser technology

Now the same technology which located those Mayan cities has been used to rediscover a southern African city that was occupied from...

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Agriculture initiated by indigenous peoples, not Fertile Crescent migration

Small scale agricultural farming was first initiated by indigenous communities living on Turkey's Anatolian plateau, and not introduced by migrant farmers as...

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Hair was dyed for first time as part of funeral rituals, study shows

Archaeologists from the University of Granada have carried out excavations in the Biniadris Cave located on the Balearic Island of Menorca, uncovering...

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New Radiocarbon Dates shed light on changes in Iron Age Society in Orkney

The Cairns archaeology dig is situated on a wild and wind-swept cliff above Windwick Bay in South Ronaldsay, Orkney.

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Ancient Nubia (present-day Sudan): In the footsteps of the Napata and Meroe kingdoms

The archaeological site of Sedeinga is located in Sudan, a hundred kilometres to the north of the third cataract of the Nile,...

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Human dispersion through southern Europe in Early Pleistocene

Geochronologists from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) have led a study published in the journal Quaternary Geochronology about the...