New households dating from the Mesolithic are being studied at the Arenal de la Virgen site in a dune system next to the Laguna de Villena
The Self Portraits Rooms at the Uffizi Galleries: twelve rooms show six hundred years of art history in the form of self-portraits and portraits
The Oxford Handbook of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead is thus the first major handbook to collect and synthesise the wide-ranging scholarship
Giant stone artefacts, including a Late Acheulean ‘Giant’ handaxe, found on rare Ice Age site at Manor Farm now Maritime Academy, Frindsbury, Kent
The Danish colonisation of Greenland in the 18th century was in part driven by the desire to re-establish contact with early Norse settlers that vanished from the island in the course of the 15th century
The Ivory Lady at Valencina was the highest status individual in an Copper Age society in ancient Iberia, according to peptide analysis
An archaeological expedition from the University of Gothenburg recently discovered tombs outside the Bronze Age trading metropolis Hala Sultan Tekke in Cyprus
The distinctive roof of the Sydney Opera House – consisting of shells in the form of boat sails – was assembled through a remarkable feat of engineering
The first Dutch exhibition about mummy portraits aka Fayum portraits opens at the Allard Pierson in October
New ArchCUT3-D technology explores 3-D micromorphological characteristics of engravings with unprecedented precision
Stone tools from Tabon Cave, Philippines, bear tell-tale markings of fiber technology going back 39,000 years
A new Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, MagEIA – Magic between Entanglement, Interaction, and Analogy
Shattering the myth of men as hunters and women as gatherers: data from foraging societies show that women often hunt large game skillfully
Specialization in sheep farming, a possible strategy for Neolithic communities in the Adriatic to expand throughout the Mediterranean
Early City Planning in the Kingdom of Judah Sheds New Light on Urbanization Process and Borders in the time of David and Rehoboam
Humans’ evolutionary relatives butchered one another 1.45 million years ago in today’s Kenya, according to a new study in Scientific Reports
In Moravia, ravens were attracted to humans’ food more than 30,000 years ago, according to a new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution
Neanderthal engravings at La Roche-Cotard are oldest known, at least for Europe, being dated at over 57,000 years old
Was warfare responsible for the fall of small-scale societies in Prehistoric Europe? The study has been published in Scientific Reports
The face of a 16-year-old woman buried near Cambridge in the 7th century with the ‘Trumpington Cross’ has been reconstructed
