Researchers from the Prehistoric Studies and Research Seminar and the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Barcelona have identified the oldest mule documented in the western Mediterranean ...

This stuff is older than Stonehenge.

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

In the north, distinctive lineages such as M27, M28, and M29′Q trace deep roots in New Guinea and Near Oceania, while in the ...

Archaeologists uncover 16 Indigenous canoes, one older than the Pyramids, revealing a vast prehistoric travel network.

Poverty Point, a 3,500-year-old earthen mound, is a well-researched UNESCO World Heritage Site, but a pair of studies ...

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one ...

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Archaeologists excavating at Canhasan in central Turkey have unearthed an extraordinarily rare 8,500-year-old obsidian mirror. The discovery represents one of only 56 such mirrors ever found across ...

At the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, the archaeology department has over 1 million artifacts from all over the ...

Archaeologists studied Semiyarka, dubbed The City of Seven Ravines, a settlement from 1600 BC that may have been a powerhouse ...