Kinship and ancestry of the Celts in Baden-Württemberg, Germany: genetic analyses of Celtic burial mounds from 500 BCE reveal close relationships
The body of a woman is discovered among the remains of 25 warrior monks of the Order of Calatrava in Guadalajara
400,000-year-old stone tools designed specifically for butchering fallow deer, following the disappearance of elephants
New discoveries found in Iraqi Kurdistan key to the emergence of agriculture and first city-states: the UAB archaeological project
Cutmarks on a 4,000-year-old Egyptian skull could indicate an attempt at operating on excessive tissue growth or to learn more about cancer
For the first time, the researchers will systematically collect, document and scientifically analyse historical evidence written in Proto-Sarada
A study reveals the continuous evolutionary history of rice from wild to domesticated over an astonishing span of 100,000 years, confirming that China is the birthplace of rice (Oryza sativa)
Extensive social and cultural networks between different hunter-gatherers in the Congo Basin (Central Africa) existed long before agriculture arrived in the region
Neanderthal and modern human children living during the Upper Palaeolithic may have faced similar levels of childhood stress but at different developmental stages
Multiple temporary campsites reveal that ancient people hunted gomphotheres, extinct elephants, at Tagua Tagua Lake in Chile, 12,000 years ago
The Dendra panoply, an Ancient Mycenaean armour, has been tested by Marines and pronounced suitable for extended combat
Indigenous groups in the Pacific Northwest were intentionally harvesting edible camas bulbs at optimal stages of the plant’s maturation as far back as 3,500 years ago
The analysis of fat traces in over one hundred pottery vessels reveals deep changes in prehistoric Central European culinary traditions
Researchers established a chronology for Dispilio, by combining radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology and information on cosmic particles from Miyake events
The first lithic study of level VI-B at the Mumba site in Tanzania, a settlement by groups of Homo sapiens present in the Lake Eyasi region between 109,000 and 131,000 years ago
A violent blaze at Tossal de Baltarga, possibly linked to the Carthaginian army crossing the Pyrenees to fight the Romans during the Second Punic War
The Egyptian pyramids between Giza and Lisht may originally have been built along a 64-km-long branch of the river Nile, the Ahramat branch
84 teeth have been analyzed to show the dietary practices of the agropastoral communities of the northeast Iberian Peninsula
What we do know is that the Hitra man lived in a very turbulent period. Up to that point, most people lived as hunter-gatherers
An investigation of the assemblage of rock paintings in the Cova del Tabac (Camarasa, Lleida), by applying 3D methods combined with hyperspectral cameras
