Popular Archeology

Past river activity in northern Africa reveals multiple Sahara greenings

The analysis of sediment cores from the Mediterranean Sea combined with Earth system models tells the story of major environmental changes in North Africa over the last 160,000 years,...

Sat, Jan 30, 2021

Modeling study of ancient thumbs traces the history of hominin thumb dexterity

Findings have important implications for human evolution.

Fri, Jan 29, 2021

A glimpse into the wardrobe of King David and King Solomon, 3000 years ago

Thu, Jan 28, 2021

Ancient indigenous New Mexican community knew how to sustainably coexist with wildfire

Native people lived in flammable landscapes of the American West for millenia.

Thu, Jan 28, 2021

Theban Mapping Project Website Relaunched

New website promises to be a key resource for research and learning on ancient Egypt.

Wed, Jan 27, 2021

Inequality in medieval Cambridge was ‘recorded on the bones’ of its residents

Mon, Jan 25, 2021

First people to enter the Americas likely did so with their dogs

Mon, Jan 25, 2021

‘Rosetta Stone’ of the internet could help researchers finally solve puzzle of ancient Minoan language

Sat, Jan 23, 2021

Chimpanzee friends fight together to battle rivals

Strong social bonds increase the willingness to join others in battle.

Sat, Jan 23, 2021

Early humans used chopping tools to break animal bones and consume the bone marrow

The toolkit of prehistoric humans.

Thu, Jan 21, 2021

On the origins of money: Ancient European hoards full of standardized bronze objects

Early Bronze Age cultures traded in bronze objects of standardized weight.

Wed, Jan 20, 2021

Learning from Native American fire management

Mon, Jan 18, 2021

Resurrecting the Wisdom of the Past

How archaeological research today helps humanity engineer a better future.

Mon, Jan 18, 2021

Beyond Monuments: Ancient Maya Landscapes Revealed Through Technology

Scientists are now seeing, more than ever, what the ancient Maya created beyond the more visible monumental structures everyone sees today.

Fri, Jan 15, 2021

New perspectives in human behavior and culture

Thu, Jan 14, 2021

A Newly Discovered Indonesian Cave Painting May Be the World’s Oldest Known Figurative Artwork

Wed, Jan 13, 2021

First modern human stone tool culture lasted 20,000 years longer than thought

Some 11 thousand years ago, Africa's furthest west harbored the last populations to preserve tool-making traditions first established by the earliest members of our species.

Mon, Jan 11, 2021

Sharing leftover meat may have contributed to early dog domestication

Thu, Jan 7, 2021

Oldest hominins of Olduvai Gorge persisted across changing environments

~2.0 to 1.8 million year-old archaeological site demonstrates that early humans had the skills and tools to cope with ecological change.