Archaeology
Ancient Chemistry Reveals Hidden Workshops Behind Islamic Sicily’s Glazed Pottery Revolution
The first large-scale archaeometric study of Islamic Sicily's glazed ceramics identifies distinct production centres across the island and distinguishes them...
Four Million Ancient Coins Show How Rome Built an Integrated Economy
Researchers at the University of São Paulo used nearly four million ancient coins and modern spatial economics to show that...
Giant Neolithic Stones Hauled 11 Miles Across Yorkshire, Isotopic Study Reveals
Isotopic fingerprinting shows the 25-tonne Devil's Arrow megaliths were quarried at Brimham Rocks and hauled 18 kilometres across Neolithic Yorkshire...
Ancient Pompeii Emerges as a Black Gloss Pottery Powerhouse, Chemistry Reveals
Chemical analysis of 57 Black Gloss pottery vessels from Pompeii reveals the city was a major production hub within decentralized...
How a Fast-Growing Crop Transformed Bronze Age Europe’s Landscape
Bioarchaeological evidence shows broomcorn millet reached southeastern Poland by 1590 BCE and enabled Bronze Age farmers to cultivate previously marginal...
Snail Shells Reveal How Central African Foragers Turned to Escargot in Lean Wet Seasons
New ethnoarchaeological research shows that Central African forest foragers collect and eat giant land snails as a deliberate wet season...
Norman Conquest brought bears and baiting to medieval England, bones reveal
New research combining radiocarbon dating, archaeology and medieval records shows that bear baiting and the importation of live bears became...
Childhood diets and socialization revealed by tooth isotopes at Jiaojia, China
In the rolling piedmont plains north of Mount Tai, in China's Shandong Province, lies one of the most remarkable Neolithic...
Late Roman glass production at Tel Yavne revealed through geochemical analysis
Archaeologists working at a sprawling industrial complex near Tel Yavne in Israel have uncovered and chemically characterized one of the...
Embryo-to-adult fossils reveal growth of mysterious bird-like dinosaur
For more than a century, one of North America's most enigmatic bird-like dinosaurs has been known to science by little...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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