Less wastage during production of marble slabs in the Roman imperial period than today
Analysis of wall decoration dating to the second century A.D. provides new insights into marble extraction and processing.
Climate change may be accelerating ancient rock art degradation
Some of the oldest known rock art in the world, located in Indonesia, at risk.
Archaeologists pinpoint population for the Greater Angkor region
Study designed at the University of Oregon provided a foundation that drew new information from lidar imagery, machine learning, archaeological and historical data.
Review: Most human origins stories are not compatible with known fossils
Fossil apes can inform us about essential aspects of ape and human evolution, including the nature of our last common ancestor.
Ancient DNA reveals origin of first Bronze Age civilizations in Europe
Findings shed light on role of migration in Neolithic to Bronze Age transition and emergence of Indo-European languages.
The oldest human burial in Africa
Dating to 78,000 years ago, the burial was found by archaeologists in Panga ya Saidi, a cave site on the Kenyan coast.
Cracking the code of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Artificial Intelligence tools enable researchers to 'shake hands' with ancient scribes.
People have shaped Earth’s ecology for at least 12,000 years, mostly sustainably
New data challenge previous assessments indicating that most land was uninhabited as recently as 1500 CE and suggest path toward long-term environmental stewardship.
Nuclear DNA from sediments helps unlock ancient human history
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in extracting and analyzing Neanderthal chromosomal DNA preserved in cave sediments.
