The study shows for the first time that Vikings brought animals, specifically horses and dogs, to Britain in the 9th century
A new study, published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, reveals evidence of early Ice Age writing and what it meant
Humans have been using bear skins for at least 300,000 years, according to traces on bones from the site of Schöningen in Lower Saxony
What Can Furbearers Past and Present Teach Us About Future Conservation Efforts? Consequences of mass harvesting, ecosystem change
What ancient dung reveals about Epipaleolithic animal tending: a study about Abu Hureyra, published on PLoS One
Human bones were used for making pendants in the Stone Age, on the island of Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov on Lake Onega
An Age-Old Story: Farmers against Pests, as early as the Neolithic period, pests posed a threat to agricultural yields
Analysis of Bronze Age daggers has shown that they were used for processing animal carcasses and not as non-functional symbols of identity and status, as previously thought
Archeological findings that could rewrite the history of bird domestication: the oldest type of poultry ever domesticated may have been geese
The soil at the early Neolithic site of Aşıklı Höyük in Turkey offers a distinct signal for following the management of animals there