Most of the time, the past survives as debris scattered across millennia—animal bones here, a broken spear tip there, the ...

The Loveland Stone Age Fair, a nationally recognized event in archaeological circles, is returning for the 90th time to the Loveland area, for the first time with a theme. “Women in Archaeology” is a ...

A team of archaeologists believes that three impressively sized circular ditch structures from around 4500 B.C.E.—which the ...

Nestled along the northern shore of Lake Burtnieks in northern Latvia, Stone Age communities used the Zvejnieki burial site ...

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A groundbreaking study of Latvia’s ancient Zvejnieki cemetery has overturned long-held ideas about Stone Age life and death. Researchers have uncovered new details about life and death during the ...

Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed. By Franz Lidz In 1836, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian, brought ...

Archaeologists studying the vast Zvejnieki cemetery in Latvia have uncovered surprising truths about Stone Age life. Stone ...

Human bones discovered in a house that burned down 5,700 years ago are providing archaeologists "CSI"-style clues about the deaths of seven people in prehistoric Ukraine. When you purchase through ...

They were likely “members of a raiding party who were captured and subjected to capital punishment,” the authors write, and ...

Two previously unknown Neolithic stone circles have been found in England, and they may have been part of a "sacred arc," an archaeologist says. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Chennai: An archaeology student from the University of Madras has discovered a prehistoric site in Dharmapuri district.More ...