Archaeology News

Jun 16, 2021 by News Staff

Archaeologists have identified castoreum — a substance harvested from the castor sacs of beavers — as a component of the design and construction of an ancient throwing dart from Yukon, Canada. Photographs of the find location and the 6,000-year-old throwing dart recovered in 2018 in Yukon, Canada: (a) composite photograph of the dart; (b) dart in its discovery location, showing the distal end; (c) dart in its discovery location showing...

Jun 14, 2021 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has found an unbroken chicken egg in an Islamic-period cesspit at the archaeological...

Jun 8, 2021 by News Staff

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 2,000-year-old Roman basilica complex in the Tel Ashkelon National Park, Israel. Aerial view of the Roman...

Jun 2, 2021 by News Staff

Archaeologists have obtained radiocarbon dates for the faunal bones excavated from Coxcatlan Cave, a dry rock shelter located within the southern portion...

Jun 2, 2021 by News Staff

Scottish archaeologist Hamish Fenton has discovered prehistoric animal carvings — thought to be between 4,000 and 5,000 years old — inside...

May 26, 2021 by News Staff

Archaeologists from Griffith University, the University of New England and the Balai Arkeologi Sulawesi Selatan have examined a collection of stone and...

May 10, 2021 by News Staff

The bronze lamp, shaped like a grotesque face that is cut in half, was intentionally deposited in the foundations of a building about 1,900 years ago as...

Apr 27, 2021 by News Staff

A team of paleoanthropologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, CNRS and the University of Toronto has examined artifacts and sediments found in...

Apr 27, 2021 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered a 1,600-year-old mosaic at the archaeological site of Tel Yavne in the Central...

Apr 20, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of archaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology has discovered...

Apr 16, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has developed new methods for the enrichment and analysis of nuclear DNA from sediments, and applied them to cave deposits...

Apr 15, 2021 by News Staff

Historical and ethnographic literature from across Africa suggests bee products, honey and larvae, had considerable importance both as a food source and...

Apr 14, 2021 by News Staff

An intricately carved stone slab from the early Bronze Age found in France has been identified as the oldest cartographical representation of a known territory...

Apr 14, 2021 by News Staff

New research by Griffith University and University of Cape Town scientists provides the first traceological evidence of multipurpose nature of Australian...

Apr 13, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of archaeologists has uncovered a 3,300-year-old city in the southern province of Luxor in Egypt. The 3,300-year-old ruins of Aten...

Apr 1, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of archaeologists has found evidence of complex symbolic and technological behaviors at Ga-Mohana Hill in the Northern Cape, South...

Mar 29, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Neanderthals, our evolutionary cousins, used toothpicks nearly 46,000 years ago, a new study of their teeth has revealed. A reconstruction of a Neanderthal...

Mar 26, 2021 by News Staff

Archaeologists have examined the remains of houses in Uxbenká and Ix Kuku’il, two medium size, peripheral Classic Maya (250-900 CE) polities located...

Mar 25, 2021 by News Staff

The Oldowan and the Acheulean — currently the two oldest, well-documented stone tool technologies known to archaeologists — are roughly 30,000...

Mar 24, 2021 by News Staff

A research team led by University College London archaeologists has discovered a 5,000-year-old dismantled stone circle in west Wales, close to Stonehenge’s...