Cook like a Neanderthal: Scientists try to replicate ancient butchering methods to learn how Neanderthals ate birds
A pilot study indicates that fire-roasted birds are easier to process, but only birds butchered raw show cutmarks — evidence that we can use to understand Neanderthal diets.
Discoveries in the Shadow of the Step Pyramid
Fascinating new finds have come to light at the Gisr el-Mudir site in ancient Saqqara, Egypt.
Yin, The Lost City of Kings
Decades of excavation and investigation have revealed China’s last magnificent Bronze Age Shang Dynasty capital, the city that gave birth to the Chinese script.
Pompeii skeleton discovery shows another natural disaster may have made Vesuvius eruption even more deadly
Scientists think that skeletons of individuals trapped and killed inside buildings by earthquakes during the 79CE eruption of Vesuvius could provide a more complete history of destruction.
The AlUla Approach to Archaeology
Archaeology at the ancient sites of AlUla is providing a model for the world in community archaeology.
Evidence for butchery of giant armadillo-like mammals in Argentina 21,000 years ago
Tool marks could be among oldest known evidence for human occupation in southern South America.
Traveling Upright: Humanity’s First Global Ancestor
Decades of fossil discoveries have illuminated our understanding of a deep-time human ancestral species that persisted and spread across the globe well more than one million years ago.
New geological datings place the first European hominids in the south of the Iberian Peninsula 1.3 million years ago
Human remains in Orce.
Ancient temple and theater discovered in Peru
Carving of a mythological bird figure hints at origins of ancient religion.
Popular Archaeology collaborates with Wayfaring Walks to visit ancient Etruscan sites in Italy
Participants will undertake an up-close-and-personal hiking experience among ancient hilltop towns in Umbria and Tuscany.
Intensive economic growth in Roman Britain suggests ancient economies were more complex than thought
Finding the Roots of Religion in Human Prehistory
In a world so profoundly transformed by science and technology, it seems reasonable to ask: Why do religions still exist?
The Mystery of the Missing Apes Who Came Before Humans
The fossil record of our ape ancestors in Africa is almost nonexistent for a period of about 8 or 9 million years.
