Stone tools reveal modern human-like gripping capabilities 500,000 years ago

Research carried out at the University of Kent demonstrates that a technique used to produce stone tools that were first found half a million years ago is likely to...

Tue, Aug 21, 2018

DNA analysis of 6,500-year-old human remains in Israel points to origin of ancient culture

Skeletons buried in Israel's Upper Galilee reveal migration from ancient Turkey and Iran, Tel Aviv University researchers say.

Tue, Aug 21, 2018

Massive monumental cemetery built by Eastern Africa’s earliest herders discovered in Kenya

The 5,000-year-old cemetery near Lake Turkana is the earliest and largest monumental cemetery in eastern Africa and was built by an egalitarian society of mobile pastoralists.

Mon, Aug 20, 2018

Carbon reserves in Central American soils still affected by ancient Mayan deforestation

Finding underscores potential impact of soil management on future greenhouse-gas levels.

Mon, Aug 20, 2018

Prehistoric mummy reveals ancient Egyptian embalming ‘recipe’ was around for millennia

Wed, Aug 15, 2018

Dating the ancient Minoan eruption of Thera using tree rings

Research results show the eruption occurred in the 16th century BC, consistent with the archaeological record.

Wed, Aug 15, 2018

New study reveals evidence of how Neolithic people adapted to climate change

Mon, Aug 13, 2018

Easter Island’s society might not have ‘collapsed’ as previously thought

Analysis of tools used to make giant statues could hint at a collaborative society.

Mon, Aug 13, 2018

Laziness helped lead to extinction of Homo erectus

Fri, Aug 10, 2018

Both Interior and Coastal Routes Were Viable Pathways for the Peopling of the Americas

Wed, Aug 8, 2018

Archaeologists found traces of submerged Stone Age settlement in Southeast Finland

Wed, Aug 8, 2018

Lost Norse of Greenland fueled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests

Tue, Aug 7, 2018

Scientists measure severity of drought during the Maya collapse

Thu, Aug 2, 2018

Modern Flores Island pygmies show no genetic link to extinct ‘hobbits’

Thu, Aug 2, 2018

New light shed on the people who built Stonehenge

Thu, Aug 2, 2018

Early metal use and cremation in southeastern United States

Mon, Jul 30, 2018

The Last Hominin Standing

A new study suggests that Homo sapiens developed a new ecological niche that separated it from other hominins, possibly critical to the species' success as the last surviving hominin...

Mon, Jul 30, 2018

Archeological plant remains point to southwest Amazonia as crop domestication center

Ancient people in the region began cultivating plants and altering forests earlier than previously thought.

Wed, Jul 25, 2018

Archaeologists identify ancient North American mounds using new image analysis technique

Tue, Jul 24, 2018

Native bison hunters amplified climate impacts on North American prairie fires

Study shows hunter-gatherers used active burning to improve grazing, drive bison, long before arrival of Columbus.

Mon, Jul 23, 2018