Popular Archeology

Bronze Age diet and farming strategy reconstructed using integrative isotope analysis

Cross-sectional study suggests similar diets but different management of livestock among communities and a larger share of animal protein restricted to very few members of the elite.

Wed, Mar 11, 2020

Stone-age ‘likes’: Study establishes eggshell beads exchanged over 30,000 years

Mon, Mar 9, 2020

New Homo erectus Fossils Hint at Diverse Tool Use

Wed, Mar 4, 2020

How millets sustained Mongolia’s empires

Stable isotope analyses reveals dramatic diet diversification at the onset of the steppe's earliest empires.

Tue, Mar 3, 2020

Each Mediterranean island has its own genetic pattern

Researchers reconstruct migration movements through ancient DNA.

Wed, Feb 26, 2020

Human populations survived the Toba volcanic super-eruption 74,000 years ago

New archaeological work supports the hypothesis that human populations were present in India by 80,000 years ago and that they survived one of the largest volcanic eruptions in the...

Tue, Feb 25, 2020

Earliest interbreeding event between ancient human populations discovered

Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestors interbred with a distantly related hominin 700,000 years ago.

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

Cognitive experiments give a glimpse into the ancient mind

New study shed light on some of the earliest examples of human symbolic behavior: Ancient engravings were likely produced with aesthetic intent and marked group identity.

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

New study results consistent with dog domestication during ice age

A research team performed dental microwear analysis on canid fossils from a Paleolithic site in the Czech Republic.

Wed, Feb 19, 2020

Ancient plant foods discovered in Arnhem Land, Australia

Plant foods eaten by humans in Australia 65,000 years ago.

Wed, Feb 19, 2020

Archaeologists unearth letter from biblical era

Hebrew University team unearths Canaanite temple at Lachish; find gold artifacts, cultic figurines, and oldest known etching of Hebrew letter 'Samech'.

Wed, Feb 19, 2020

Discovery at ‘flower burial’ site could unravel mystery of Neanderthal death rites

Tue, Feb 18, 2020

5,200-year-old grains in the eastern Altai Mountains redate trans-Eurasian crop exchange

Agricultural crops dispersed across Eurasia more than five millennia ago, causing significant cultural change in human populations across the ancient world. New discoveries in the Altai Mountains illustrate that...

Sat, Feb 15, 2020