Archaeology

For centuries before European colonization, communities in Colombia’s Caribbean lowlands engineered a vast water-management system that transformed seasonal flooding into...

Lost Papal Letter Recasts the Norman Conquest as a Wider Holy War The Norman Conquest of England in 1066 may...

Wild bearded capuchin monkeys appear to judge stone tools not only by what the stones are made of, but also...

Analysing ancient DNA of over 500 mammoth bones, an international team of researchers found that Ice Age humans selectively targeted...

Archaeology is often narrated through artifacts, but a new study shows that livestock teeth can also preserve the logic of...

A century of scholarship on the Assyrian Empire has leaned heavily on the Assyrian King List (AKL) as the definitive...

Humans reached Malta—tiny, resource-limited and far from the mainland—during the Mesolithic, a timeline that has long puzzled researchers. Archaeology suggests...

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid the size of a mountain slammed into Earth near Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, triggering the...

Eight fossil trackways from northern Kenya have been re-read as a rare, moment-by-moment record of how an extinct human relative...

GunaiKurnai peoples, the recognized Traditional Owners of Gippsland and the southern Victorian Alps, have long described caves in their Country...