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
Are the origins of the Lager beer in Bavaria? A new research, published in FEMS Yeast Research, tries to answer the question
The reason behind the May 819-day count lies in astronomy, according to a new study published in the Ancient Mesoamerica journal
Statistical physics may reveal how languages evolve, according to a new research published in The European Physical Journal B
Modern-day Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish people have Pictish ancestry; the new study has been published in PLOS Genetics
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
Searching for ancient bears in an Alaskan cave led to an important human discovery: Tatóok yík yées sháawat (Young lady in cave), living 3,000 years ago is in fact closest related to present-day Tlingit
Geochemical analyses of stone artefacts reveal long-distance voyaging among Pacific Islands during the last millennium
Conclusive evidence of chicken breeding in the Yayoi period of Japan has been discovered from the Karako-Kagi site
The contents of six sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins — which were imaged using a non-invasive technique — are described in a study
A new grammatical database, Grambank, documents the reveals accelerating loss of language diversity, in a study published in Science Advances
Allard Pierson starts international research on twelve mummy portraits, two from its own collection and ten from partner museums in Europe
Emma Smith will give a talk in her hometown of Leeds as the University displays its own copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio and its journeys
Ancient DNA reveals the multiethnic structure of the Xiongnu Empire, Mongolia’s first nomadic empire; the study has been published in Science Advances
Coastal erosion threatening archaeological sites on the Cyrenaican coast, Libya; the study has been published on PLoS ONE