Archaeology

For most of the past century, one of northeastern Africa's most enigmatic stone tools has kept its secret. The rhyolite...

Deep inside Teixoneres Cave, beneath the hills near Moià in the province of Barcelona, the archaeological record has been quietly...

High on a windswept escarpment in southeastern Mauritania, where sheer cliffs drop more than 350 meters into sand-choked basins, lies...

Archaeologists excavating a sandstone cave in South Africa have uncovered a remarkably detailed record of human activity spanning thousands of...

In a discovery that could reshape the history of ancient foodways in North America, researchers report that cacao may have...

A pot can preserve far more than its contents. Long after its surface has been worn smooth and its original...

For centuries, handmade pots in the Roman province of Thrace were treated as the humble leftovers of archaeology: rough, locally...

On the steep, stony slopes of southern Ethiopia, farmers have transformed terrain that appears almost hostile to agriculture into a...

A newly published archaeometallurgical study is offering one of the clearest reconstructions yet of how early iron production was organized...

At Vulci, one of Italy’s most important Etruscan centers, a burial chamber is offering scientists an unusually intimate view of...