Humans occupied a lava tube called Umm Jirsan, in Saudi Arabia, for thousands of years: bones and artifacts indicate a timeline of herding and agriculture in northern Arabia
The first dating study of Pirro Nord, Italy, traditionally regarded as the oldest archaeological site in western Europe, indicates that it is probably much younger than anticipated
Archaeologists from Newcastle University have unearthed evidence for an evolving sacred landscape spanning centuries in Crowland, Lincolnshire.
Early herding communities of the Southern Iberian Peninsula used a wide variety of livestock management strategies
Spears from the Schöningen open-cast coal mine have been examined and show that wood was a crucial raw material 300,000 years ago
Archaeologists put on their lab coats analyzed pottery from Neolithic sites to illuminate ancient culinary practices
Movement of crops, animals played a key role in domestication, as a long-term gene flow between wild and domestic species was much more common than previously appreciated
What Bronze Age teeth say about the evolution of the human diet: scientists extract microbiomes from two 4,000 year old teeth at Killuragh Cave
The reason for the proximity between Paleolithic extensive stone quarries and water sources: Elephant hunting by early humans
The first Neolithic boats in the Mediterranean Sea at La Marmotta: canoes from Italy reveal early development of advanced nautical technology