Spears from the Schöningen open-cast coal mine have been examined and show that wood was a crucial raw material 300,000 years ago
An elegantly carved saddle from Mongolia is one of earliest frame saddles; the study has been published in the Antiquity journal
The oldest hunter-gatherer basketry in southern Europe, from the Cueva de los Murciélagos and dated to the Mesolithic period, identified
A well-preserved wooden structure at the archaeological site of Kalambo Falls, Zambia, dating back at least 476,000 years, is world’s oldest
Earliest evidence of forest management discovered at the La Draga Neolithic site; the study was published in the International Journal of Wood Culture
Scientists say a shipwreck off Patagonia is the Dolphin, a long-lost 1850s Rhode Island Whaler. Tree rings help identify remains some 10,000 miles from home
Columbus was not the first European to reach the Americas, the Vikings got there centuries before, being already active in 1021 AD
The Pachacamac Idol of ancient Peru was a multicolored and emblematic sacred icon worshipped for almost 700 hundred years before Spanish conquest
Recent archaeological investigations in the Tollense Valley have unearthed a collection of 31 unusual objects of a Bronze Age warrior who died on the battlefield 3,300 years ago
A 8,000 year old structure has been discovered, next to what is believed to be the oldest boat building site in the world on the Isle of Wight
