The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Where do all these ideas and stories about aliens and witches come from? Archaeology can explain, says one Miami University anthropologist. Jeb Card’s latest book, Spooky Archaeology: Myth and Science ...

Scientists found fossilized shark teeth in a 2,900-year-old site They were probably transported from 80 kilometers away The scientists have since found other shark fossils in Israel Scientists have ...

The opposable thumb’s evolutionary arrival is commonly associated with the dawn of our ancestors' first use of stone tools. Most primates – including humans, apes, and some monkeys – boast this ...

The Archeological Society Malta will tomorrow hold a talk about early Christian archaeology. The lecture, titled ‘Early Christian archeology: the first centuries up to AD 500. From domus-ecclesia to ...

Archaeologists uncover early urban design in Taxila, offering new insights into how it contrasts with ancient Greek town planning.

Flint chopping tools were used by early humans beginning 2.6 million years ago to break animal bones and release the high-calorie marrow inside, a study has found. Researchers led from Germany and ...

In the lecture — which was live-streamed due to coronavirus concerns — Spriggs, an archaeology professor at the Australian National University, presented an overview of his five-year project. Entitled ...

Hot springs may have been used by early human ancestors to boil food around 1.8 million years ago — long before they mastered cooking with fire, a study suggested. The Olduvai Gorge in northern ...