Archaeology

Disappearance of mammoths, other giants likely reduced interactions of smaller mammalsCredit: University of Nebraska-Lincoln / Shutterstock When a series of large mammal species began going extinct roughly 12,000 years ago, many surviving…

Hebrew Uuniversity researchers provide first glimpse at what ancient Denisovans may have looked like (Jerusalem, September 19, 2019)--If you could travel back in time to 100,000 years ago, you'd find yourself living among several different…

Credit: Maayan Harel If you could travel back in time 100,000 years, you'd find yourself living among multiple groups of humans, including anatomically modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. But exactly what our…

Findings also suggest pharaoh's influence on Edom turned kingdom into copper powerhouse, say TAU researchersCredit: T. Levy/American Friends of Tel Aviv University (AFTAU) Genesis 36:31 describes an early, pre-10th century BCE…

Technological progress in the Levant fits a 'punctuated equilibrium' modelCredit: E. Ben-Yosef and the Central Timna Valley Project During the late 10th century BCE, the emerging Edomite Kingdom of the southern Levant experienced a…

General public can learn what they'll experience when the world-exclusive exhibition of 'one of the greatest fossil discoveries of the past half century*' opens Oct. 19 at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in DallasCredit: Photos by…

Credit: Amy Bogaard Seven thousand years ago, societies across Eurasia began to show signs of lasting divisions between haves and have-nots. In new research published in the journal Antiquity, scientists chart the precipitous surge…

New study of an ape-like pelvis suggests human ancestors might not have been built like modern African apesCredit: Illustration courtesy of John Siddick COLUMBIA, Mo. - Near an old mining town in Central Europe, known for its picturesque…

The first evidence of human occupation in northern France has been put back by 150,000 years, thanks to the findings of a team of scientists from the CNRS and the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle at the emblematic site of Moulin…

By using age-mortality and species-selection profiles from prehistoric East Asia, researchers identified carp aquaculture in Henan Province, China, thousands of years earlier than previously reportedCredit: Mark Hudson In a…