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Research team led by University of Göttingen reconstructs late medieval trade routes digitallyCredit: www.viabundus.eu The Hanseatic League was a confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northwestern and Central Europe,…

Resuming the archaeological season in the Egyptian Eastern Desert provides proof of Roman emerald minesCredit: Authors "New evidence of the importance of the Roman/Byzantine Mons Smaragdus settlement within the emerald mining network"…

Study by journalism professors at University of Missouri and University of Kansas explores impact of COVID-19 on US community newspapersCredit: University of Missouri When the Webster-Kirkwood Times, a community newspaper in the…

Dog bones dated between circa 4200 and 4000 BCE discoveredCredit: Royal Commission of Al-Ula A team of archaeologists in north-west the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has uncovered the earliest evidence of dog domestication by the…

Paper urges archaeologists and historians to work closely with people who are grappling with racism in public monuments When most Americans imagine an archaeologist, they picture someone who looks like Indiana Jones. Or, perhaps, Lara…

What did our ancestors eat during the stone age? Mostly meatCredit: Dr. Miki Ben Dor Researchers at Tel Aviv University were able to reconstruct the nutrition of stone age humans. In a paper published in the Yearbook of the American…

LAWRENCE - Whereas most people look at Antoine Vollon's sumptuous painting "Mound of Butter" and see pure, yellow joy, University of Kansas Professor of Art History Marni Kessler sees a severed head and underlying rancidity. Same sort of…

It is well known that climate-induced sea level rise is a major threat. New research has found that previous ice loss events could have caused sea-level rise at rates of around 3.6 metres per century, offering vital clues as to what lies…

Collaboration between Leipzig University, the University of Tübingen and the Technical University of DarmstadtCredit: Christoph Zielhofer, Leipzig University Floodplains are exceptionally dynamic landscapes and key areas of Europe's…

Machine learning opens new doors in archaeologyCredit: Mimal Land Management Aboriginal Corporation (MLMAC) Rock art of human figures created over thousands of years in Australia's Arnhem Land has been put through a…

Credit: Zainolla Samashev Because of their interactions and conflicts with the major contemporaneous civilizations of Eurasia, the Scythians enjoy a legendary status in historiography and popular culture. The Scythians had…

A new study published in the journal Climatic Change examines the cultural impacts of climate change in Italy during the first millennium ADCredit: Filippo Lippi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Until now, historians have…

Historical documents show legendary Edo period mathematician invited to southern Japan to assist with civil engineering projectsNational Diet Library, Japan Researchers from Kumamoto University (Japan) have discovered two primary…

A 'design playbook' for historic Black communitiesCredit: UT Arlington A team from the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs (CAPPA) is one of two nationwide to win a $40,000 SOM Foundation Research Prize to create a…

Sheepskin may have been the preferred parchment for use in legal documents in Britain between the 16th and 20th century based on its utility in detecting fraud, according to research publish in the open-access journal Heritage Science.…

This may well be the most interesting story about pillows and bedding you will ever readCredit: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU University Museum The burial field in Valsgärde outside Uppsala in central…

Lawyers used sheepskin as anti-fraud device for hundreds of years to stop fraudsters pulling the wool over people's eyes, study showsCredit: Dave Lee Medieval and early modern lawyers chose to write on sheepskin parchment because…

States with more collective governance had more similarly sized housesCredit: (Photo credit: KM Prufer) Every society has some degree of wealth inequality--over history, across continents, there always seem to be some people who…

A new study from the University of Kent's School of Anthropology and Conservation has found that Oldowan and Acheulean stone tool technologies are likely to be tens of thousands of years older than current evidence suggests. A new study…

Scholars of archaeology, geography, history and paleoclimatology lay out a new framework for uncovering climate-society interactionsCredit: Degroot et al., 2021 As the signs of today's human-caused climate change become…