The COST Action Managing Artificial Intelligence in Archaeology (MAIA) officially launched its network in September 2024
Light from Italy: From Fattori to Morandi – Masterpieces in dialogue from the Uffizi Galleries and the Latvian National Museum of Art, the exhibition
New discoveries from the Pleistocene-age Gantangqing site in southwestern China reveal a diverse collection of wooden tools dated from ~361,000 to 250,000 years ago
Regional disparities in US media coverage of archaeology research; a new study published in Science Advances
Research project at University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg in Frankfurt uncovers more Nazi plunder than expected
Researchers sequence first genome from ancient Egypt: DNA was extracted from the tooth of an individual buried in Nuwayrat
The Roman water management of ancient Arles, as read in aqueduct carbonate, a new study published in the journal Geoarchaeology
Hymn to Babylon discovered, the previously unknown hymn of praise comes from the period around 1000 BCE; it was copied by children at school
Early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool for stone toolmaking during the Middle Stone Age
When ideas travel further than people: how the Neolithic way of life spread from the Fertile Crescent; a new study published in the journal Science
Early farmers in the Andes were doing just fine, challenging popular theory; diet data shows consistent food resources during the transition from foraging to farming
In the windswept steppe of northeastern Mongolia, archaeologists have unearthed over 7,000 animal bones, a rare window into daily life along the medieval frontier of the Liao Empire
“Boomerang” made from mammoth tusk is likely one of the oldest known in Europe at around 40,000 years old, per analysis of this artifact from Obłazowa Cave, a Polish Upper Paleolithic cave
Ancient dugout canoe replica tests Paleolithic migration theory, and long-standing questions about migration of early modern humans in East Asia
What happens when those affected by a loved one’s illness take centre stage in literature? What we keep silent about, literature speaks of
Newgrange: a new study, published in the journal Antiquity, casts doubt on ‘incestuous royalty’ in Neolithic Ireland
The Palaspata temple: ancient ruins discovered in Andes shed light on Tiwanaku society; the study is published in the journal Antiquity
Cooking for the craft: new study reveals how prehistoric people extracted animal teeth to produce ornaments
Dargan Shelter: Australia’s oldest occupied Ice Age cave found at high elevation in Blue Mountains; the study is published in Nature Human Behaviour
Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas at New Mexico’s White Sands confirmed in new study published in Science Advances
