Archaeology

A new dissertation from the University of Mainz decodes the tangled geochemical signals of the Schwalbenberg loess deposit, revealing how...

A 10,000-year-old larch found with roots intact in front of the retreating Morteratschgletscher shows that forests once grew at 2150...

Sediment cores and geophysical surveys in the Wiesent River valley of northern Bavaria reveal that medieval farming, deforestation, sheep grazing,...

A thin loess sequence beneath Novi Sad's Petrovaradin Fortress shows that a mosaic of ice age habitats made the site...

Spectroscopic analysis of black slipped pottery from the Khapura excavation in Uttar Pradesh is revealing how ancient Indian potters created...

A drill core south of Munich has yielded rare terrestrial sediments dating to Marine Isotope Stage 8, revealing that famous...

High-resolution sonar, sediment cores and underwater video have revealed a drowned lake and river landscape in Mecklenburg Bay, reconstructing 13,000...

A new review of numerical dating methods for Quaternary volcanism explains how argon, radiocarbon, uranium-series, cosmogenic and luminescence clocks are...

A new study shows that a single angle measured from 3D scans of stone blades can identify prehistoric flaking techniques...

New geoarchaeological research reveals how flood-safe sand mounds, fertile floodplains, and shifting land use allowed ancient Bubastis to remain inhabited...