Measuring the magnetic field recorded in burnt bricks corroborates the conquest of the Philistine city of Gath by King Hazael of Aram-Damascus, as recorded by the Book of Kings 2
‘Bone biographies’ reveal life and times of medieval England’s common people: the hard-knock lives of those who lived in Cambridge
A new type of settlement, an architectural complex of large dimensions, from the time of the Wari State, has been found in Peru…
Radiocarbon dating meets Egyptology and Biblical accounts in the city of Gezer: new dates allow testing of proposed correlations between texts and archaeological remains
Human remains at the Cueva de los Marmoles were subsequently manipulated and utilized, adding to a pattern in the Iberian Peninsula
Scientists zero in on timing, causes of Ice Age mammal extinctions in Southern California: a new study published in Science
Another step forward in radiocarbon dating: a high precision record of atmospheric radiocarbon shifts beyond 14,000 calendar years BP
PKU researchers reconstructed how the clay tiles from Qiaocun formed the earliest known composite-tiled roofs; the study is published in Scientific Reports
Pottery suggests a surprising diversity of ethnic groups in the US Virgin Islands before Columbus; the study has been published in Heritage Science
Study of the oldest human remains — the so-called “Archaic” or “Pre-Arawak” people — from Puerto Rico reveal a complex cultural landscape since 1800BC.
