Archivist explores Troy’s invisible workers in the ’30s: laborers at early archaeological sites often received no recognition for their contributions
Tool marks are evidence for butchery of Neosclerocalyptus (giant armadillo-like mammals) in Argentina 21,000 years ago
New geological datings place the first European hominids at Orce, in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, 1.3 million years ago
A new study shows how Early Pyrenean Neolithic groups at Coro Trasito applied species selection strategies to produce bone artefacts
UMA scientists find a natural quicksand trap dated to more than one million years ago in the ‘elephant graveyard’ of Fuente Nueva 3, Orce
A new method using ArchCUT3-D software for rock engraving analysis: computational answers to riddles on stone
According to a new study, the plague may have been a contributing factor to the population collapse in the end of the Neolithic, known as the Neolithic decline, in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe
An ancient temple and theater have been discovered in La Otra Banda, Cerro Las Animas, Peru; the carving of a mythological bird figure hints at origins of ancient religion
Archaeologists report earliest evidence for plant farming in east Africa, from Kakapel; a trove of ancient plant remains excavated in Kenya
Fungi and lichens pose deadly threat to 5,000-year-old rock art in the Negev desert; those famous petroglyphs are at risk of destruction