Fixing the timeline of human history has been one of archeology’s most exciting — and frustrating — endeavors. In part, that’s because scientists have limited fossil evidence to help them put a pin on ...

Archaeologists are uncovering toolkits and watercraft that do not sit neatly inside the familiar story of slow, linear progress from scattered foragers to settled farmers. Instead, these finds hint at ...

Traces of urine left by humans and domesticated animals who lived in central Turkey’s Aşıklı Höyük settlement some 10,000 years ago are helping archaeologists rewrite the timeline of early agriculture ...