A unique sword casts new light on Viking voyages across the North Sea; only about 20 such swords have been found in Norway
Ice Age wolf DNA reveals dogs trace ancestry to two separate wolf populations; a new study has been published on Nature
An Age-Old Story: Farmers against Pests, as early as the Neolithic period, pests posed a threat to agricultural yields
The famous Sterkfontein Caves deposit is one million years older than previously thought; a new study is published on PNAS
Ancient DNA and teeth show: Romans brought mules with them; a new study has been published on the Journal of Archaeological Science
OLIVIERO TOSCANI. Professione fotografo, the biggest exhibition of the great photographer’s work ever organized in Italy celebrating the 80th year of his birth
Arawakans indigenous communities used the Caribbean Sea as an aquatic highway; the study was published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
A ‘digital twin’ geographical atlas for the Appia Antica Archaeological Park, a vast, organic and systematic surveying and digitisation project
More digging needed to see whether bones of fallen Waterloo soldiers were sold as fertilizer, as few human remains have ever been found
Norse settlers in Greenland exported walrus tusk ivory to Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Kyiv was a very important trading city
Olive Trees Were First Domesticated 7,000 Years Ago. Earliest evidence for cultivation of a fruit tree, according to researchers
Origins of the Black Death identified. Despite the pandemic’s immense demographic and societal impacts, its origins have long been elusive
Archaeologists located a unique Viking Age shipyard site at Birka on Björkö in Lake Mälaren: “A site like this has never been found before”
Drone technology leads to new discoveries at Girsu; at the British Museum the exhibition for the project, Ancient Iraq: new discoveries
The study of the archaeological remains of the Font d’Horta shelter places this occupation among the last Mesolithic settlements or a leading Neolithic group exploring the terrain
The recovery of 74 war artefacts buried during the Spanish Civil War in an old republican airfield in the town of les Preses
‘Homo erectus’ from Gongwangling could have been the earliest population in China; a new study published on the Journal of Human Evolution
The heat is on: Weizmann Institute scientists uncover traces of fire, from Evron Quarry, dating back at least 800,000 years; the study is published on PNAS
Genetic intermixing in Indonesia contributed to cultural “explosion” across the Pacific; a new study has been published on Nature Ecology and Evolution
The wreck of the Gloucester, one of the most famous ships of the 17th century – which sank 340 years ago while carrying the future King James II and VII – has been discovered