Popular Archeology

New Light on an Etruscan Settlement: Marsiliana d’Albegna
by No Author
Excavations in Italy are uncovering finds that are expanding our knowledge of who the ancient Etruscans were and how they lived.
Before Mesa Verde
by Shirley Powell
Uncovering the beginnings of the great Pueblo culture of the American Southwest.
The Dedication of Roman Weapons and Armor in Water as a Religious Ritual
by Brandon Olson
Through chance finds, formal excavations, looting, and dredging operations, several pieces of intact, fully functional Roman weapons and armor have been recovered from aquatic contexts in Gaul and Britain dating from the first century B.C.E to late first century C.E. Some scholars have attempted to explain the phenomenon as a series of accidental losses, while ... Read more »
The Minoan Connection
by No Author
The news-making discoveries that are now emerging from this major archaeological site in Israel.
Ancient Peru: The First Cities
by Kimberly Munro
The first installment of our Ancient Peru series relates what archaeology has revealed about its first cities and civilizations.

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Cover Stories

Pottery reveals America’s first social media networks

Ancient Indigenous societies, including Mississippian Mound cultures, were built through social networks, PNAS study suggests.

Neanderthals’ main food source was definitely meat

Isotope analyses performed on single amino acids in Neanderthals' collagen samples shed new light on their debated diet.

The monkey hunters: Humans colonize South Asian rainforest by hunting primates

New study provides direct evidence for the hunting of tree-dwelling monkeys and other small mammals by Homo sapiens 45,000 years ago in the rainforest of Sri Lanka.

Quarrying of Stonehenge ‘bluestones’ dated to 3000 BC

Indigenous hunters had positive impacts on food webs in desert Australia

There’s a place for us: New research reveals humanity’s roles in ecosystems

Dog burial as common ritual in Neolithic populations of north-eastern Iberian Peninsula

First Neanderthal footprints found in Gibraltar

‘X-ray gun’ helps researchers pinpoint the origins of pottery found on ancient shipwreck

Prehistoric food globalization spanned three millennia

Peasant farmers began transforming diets across the Old World 7,000 years ago, study finds.

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A wooden toe: Swiss Egyptologists study 3,000-year-old prosthesis

Multispectral imaging reveals ancient Hebrew inscription undetected for over 50 years

Military correspondence from the First Temple period discovered on reverse side of well-studied artifact at The Israel Museum, Tel Aviv University researchers say.

New research reveals earliest directly dated rock paintings from southern Africa

Scientists have pioneered a technique to directly date prehistoric rock paintings in southern Africa, which revealed dates much older than previously thought.