Ancient climate change solves mystery of vanished South African lakes, Stone Age humans may have been more widespread across the continent
Oldest architectural plans detail desert kites, prehistoric mega structures; the study has been published in PLoS ONE
Archaeologists map Red Lily Lagoon, the hidden Northern Territory landscape where first Australians lived more than 60,000 years ago
Research reveals longstanding cultural continuity at Bargny, the oldest occupied site in West Africa, with Middle Stone Age toolkits persisting until around 10 thousand years ago
Stone tools tell a story of three waves of migration of the earliest Homo sapiens into Europe, according to a new study published in PLoS ONE
Carabinieri return the stele of the Bride of the desert, Satornila, that was illegally excavated in the necropolis of Zeugma, Turkey
Study of the oldest human remains — the so-called “Archaic” or “Pre-Arawak” people — from Puerto Rico reveal a complex cultural landscape since 1800BC.
Three protracted droughts — each lasting between 25 and 90 years — likely spelled the end for Indus megacities, around 4,200 years ago
Research into grape pips found from the excavated Byzantine monastery of Avdat (Oboda), in the Negev Highlands (Israel), hints at the origins of the Gaza wine
Fossilized soot and charcoal from torches dating back more than 8,000 years make it possible to reconstruct the history of the Nerja Cave