A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...

Learn how researchers use archaeological techniques to show how sea turtle shells grow in layers that capture chemical clues ...

Researchers identified 19 different types of beads, whose shapes are reminiscent of plants that were harvested by Natufians, ...

New research led by a University of Wyoming archaeologist is challenging a widely accepted idea about the earliest people in ...

A new study in Science challenges the Monte Verde timeline, reshaping when humans first reached South America.

Archaeologists and historians have long been stumped by an unsolved mystery concerning the well-inhabited islands of Southeast Asia, which were populated long ago. To inhabit the islands, it is ...

New research challenges a key archaeological site in Chile, raising fresh questions about when humans first arrived in the ...

A new study led by Todd Surovell, an archaeologist at the University of Wyoming, together with a team of collaborators from Chile, Austria, and the United States Geological Survey, has called into ...

Some vacations take you to destinations that feel futuristic, while archeological tourism transports you to a completely different era in the past. Whether you’re excavating the prehistoric species of ...

Across archaeology and earth science, new discoveries are stacking up and they do not fit the clean textbook timeline of slow human progress. Evidence points to sudden cataclysms, lost knowledge, and ...

Excavations at a central Italian city upended the belief that it served as a “backwater town” during the Roman era, finding instead it was a thriving centre till the 3rd century. The decade-long ...