A team of archaeologists from the University of Western Australia has discovered a network of ancient super-highways ...
A quarter of a million years ago, the East African Rift zone was a fertile causeway, where ample rainfall collected i...
The Faroe Islands, sitting between Iceland, Norway and the British Isles, were an important stepping stone for Viking...
In 2010, archaeologist Mikołaj Urbanowski found an ornately decorated pendant made from a mammoth bone in Poland’s St...
The Liangzhu excavation site, on the Yangtze River Delta, southwest of Shanghai in China, is home to the remains of a...
Even bison make great archaeologists. Literally.Roaming bison in Canada’s Wanuskewin Heritage Park have uncovered...
Big, small and sometimes dimpled, everyone has a chin – and we’d look pretty odd without one. But why is it there? Th...
Four summers ago, Katheryn Litherland, a Yandruwandha Yawarrawarrka woman from north-eastern South Australia, and Jas...
The dry Tarim Basin, in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of north-western China, is home to hundreds of naturally mummi...
How do scientists determine which animal a bone has come from? When it’s large or recent, the bone’s shape and DNA ca...
Lidar – light detection and ranging, a light-based method of remote sensing – has become a valuable tool in archaeolo...
Blue cheese, beer and wine - it’s the hipster’s smorgasbord, but it turns out humans have been chowing down on these ...
