Unfortunately, wood decays much faster than stone, leaving archaeologists with very little direct evidence of how prehistoric ...
Nearly half a million years ago, before the earliest known fossils of our own species, someone on a riverbank in Zambia took ...
The oddest archaeological finds from every state In 1955, Albert Miller poked at a groundhog hole on his family’s farm in ...
Thousands of years ago, Florida’s coastline extended as much as 100 miles out beyond its present edge. Artifacts from that ...
Neanderthals left plenty of traces in the western Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates Spain from France. Stone tools, ...
Mi, Ishoku, Ryoba. These are tools we use almost every day at excavation sites. When written in katakana like this, they ...
Six bone fragments from Abauntz cave in Navarre belong to a 46,000-year-old male Neanderthal; DNA and radiocarbon dating ...
A small, round hole in a Neanderthal’s shoulder blade suggests a wooden spear pierced the chest about 75,000 years ago. The ...
Most of what we knew about early modern humans has been turned upside down in the past two decades – and many more questions ...
From shattered mosques to bombed homes, Guardians of Heritage is recovering and documenting Gaza’s historic artefacts amid ...
Archaeologists examined an almost 800,000-year-old straight-tusked elephant tooth and tusk fragments from northern Israel's ...
Spanish missionaries killed in 1597 after opposing polygamy in a Guale tribe to be "blessed" this month by the Vatican in ...