May 25, 2017 by News Staff

A Vanderbilt University-led team of archaeologists has made a remarkable discovery in Peru: thousands of 15,000- to 10,000-year-old artifacts, including...

May 19, 2017 by News Staff

Archaeological deposits from a cave on Barrow Island, a large limestone continental island located 60 km off the Pilbara coast of Western Australia, reveal...

Apr 5, 2017 by News Staff

According to a new analysis of nuclear DNA from ancient individuals, many of today’s indigenous peoples living in southern Alaska and coastal British...

Jan 6, 2017 by News Staff

A new analysis of Chusang, an archeological site on the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau, suggests that permanent residents may have set up camp thousands...

Dec 21, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of archaeologists has discovered the earliest evidence of humans processing plants for food found anywhere in the world. The findings...

Dec 19, 2016 by News Staff

A novel technique developed by a team of researchers in Australia has made it possible to produce some of the first reliable radiocarbon dates for Australian...

Feb 5, 2016 by News Staff

DNA evidence lifted from the bones and teeth of hunter-gatherers who lived in Europe from 35,000 years ago (Late Pleistocene) to 7,000 years ago (early...

Nov 9, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of Australian paleontologists has unearthed a trove of fossils on the island of Timor, including the bones of eight giant rat species. The extant...

Jan 16, 2015 by News Staff

Climate change, the loss of biosphere integrity, land-system change, and altered biogeochemical cycles like phosphorus and nitrogen runoff have all passed...

Aug 29, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists from Switzerland, Australia, Germany and the United States has discovered remains of three hunter-gatherer settlements...