Aid workers should read through archaeologists' notebooks on building houses
Aid workers who provide shelter following natural disasters, such as hurricanes or earthquakes, should consider long-term archaeological information about how locals constructed their homes in the...
View ArticleLower back pain may have ties to our last common ancestor with chimpanzees
A Simon Fraser University researcher has uncovered what may be the first quantified evidence demonstrating a relationship between upright locomotion and spinal health. (2015-04-28)
View ArticleClosing the case on an ancient archeological mystery
Climate change may be responsible for the abrupt collapse of civilization on the fringes of the Tibetan Plateau around 2000 B.C. (2015-04-29)
View ArticleHeritage destruction in conflict zones provides archaeological opportunities
An international archaeological team is investigating an historic site devastated by conflict in Lebanon. (2015-05-01)
View ArticleAs the river rises: Cahokia's emergence and decline linked to Mississippi...
As with rivers, civilizations across the world rise and fall. Sometimes, the rise and fall of rivers has something to do with it. (2015-05-05)
View ArticleScandinavian trade 'triggered' the Viking Age
Archaeologists from the University of York have played a key role in Anglo-Danish research which has suggested the dawn of the Viking Age may have been much earlier - and less violent - than previously...
View ArticleAncient skeleton shows leprosy may have spread to Britain from Scandinavia
An international team, including archaeologists from the University of Southampton, has found evidence suggesting leprosy may have spread to Britain from Scandinavia. (2015-05-13)
View ArticleArchaeologists discover evidence of prehistoric gold trade route
Archaeologists at the University of Southampton have found evidence of an ancient gold trade route between the south-west of the UK and Ireland. A study suggests people were trading gold between the...
View ArticleAncient dental plaque reveals healthy eating and respiratory irritants...
New research conducted by archaeologists from the University of York and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, in collaboration with members of Tel Aviv University, reveals striking insights into the...
View ArticleScarlet macaws point to early complexity at chaco canyon
Carbon 14 dating of scarlet macaw remains indicates that interaction between Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, N.M., and Mesoamerica began more than 100 years earlier than previously thought, according to...
View ArticleStudies find early European had recent Neanderthal ancestor
In 2002, archaeologists discovered the jawbone of a human who lived in Europe about 40,000 years ago. Geneticists have now analyzed ancient DNA from that jawbone and learned that it belonged to a...
View ArticleResearchers identify plant cultivation in a 23,000-year-old site in the Galilee
The Middle East is called the "Cradle of Civilization" because it is where our hunter-gatherer ancestors first established sedentary farming communities. (2015-07-23)
View ArticleArchaeologists piece together how crew survived 1813 shipwreck in Alaska
Working closely with the U.S. Forest Service and the Sitka Tribe of Alaska, an international team of researchers funded by the National Science Foundation has begun to piece together an archaeological...
View ArticleEarliest evidence of ancient North American salmon fishing verified
Researchers in Alaska have found the earliest known evidence that Ice Age humans in North America used salmon as a food source, according to a new paper published this week in the Proceedings of the...
View ArticleFeasts and food choices: The culinary habits of the Stonehenge builders
A team of archaeologists at the University of York have revealed new insights into cuisine choices and eating habits at Durrington Walls - a Late Neolithic monument and settlement site thought to be...
View ArticleRise and fall of agrarian states influenced by climate volatility
Climate variability is one of the major forces in the rise and fall of agrarian states in Mexico and Peru, according to a team of researchers looking at both climate and archaeological records....
View ArticleBeyond the temples, ancient bones reveal the lives of the Mayan working class
Most of what we know about Mayan civilization relates to kings, queens and their elaborate temples. To understand what life was like for the 99 percent, one researcher turned to ancient animal bones...
View ArticleThe largest to have existed - giant rat fossils
Archaeologists with The Australian National University (ANU) have discovered fossils of seven giant rat species on East Timor, with the largest up to 10 times the size of modern rats. (2015-11-06)
View ArticleEARTH: Travertine buildup reflects Ancient Rome's water usage
For years historians and scientists have tried to understand the ancient marvel of the Roman aqueducts to better understand Rome itself. (2015-11-16)
View ArticleMillet: The missing link in prehistoric humans' transition from...
New research shows a cereal familiar today as birdseed was carried across Eurasia by ancient shepherds and herders laying the foundation, in combination with the new crops they encountered, of...
View ArticleLet's go wild: How ancient communities resisted new farming practices
A box of seemingly unremarkable stones sits in the corner of Dr Giulio Lucarini's office at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research where it competes for space with piles of academic...
View ArticleNeolithic megalithic tomb in Spain comprehensively examined for the first time
People of the Neolithic age around 6,000 years ago were closely connected both in life and death. (2016-01-21)
View ArticleAncient quarry proves human impact on landscape
Archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem uncovered in central Israel the earliest known Neolithic quarry in the southern Levant, dating back 11,000 years. Finds from the site indicate...
View ArticleArchaeologists uncover 13,000-year-old bones of ancient, extinct species of...
In what is considered one of the oldest and most important archaeological digs in North America, scientists have uncovered what they believe are the bones of a 13,000- to 14,000-year-old ancient,...
View ArticleNew evidence that humans settled in southeastern US far earlier than...
The discovery of stone tools found in a Florida river show that humans settled the southeastern United States far earlier than previously believed--perhaps by as much as 1,500 years, according to a...
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