LONDON — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in…
Read more Study finds humans were making fire 400,000 years ago, far earlier than once thoughtMADISON, Wis. — Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a sort of prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin…
Read more Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake ‘parking lot’JUNEAU, Alaska — A fragment of a mask that was preserved for hundreds of years in permafrost sat in the muck of a low tide in the western…
Read more Archaeological site in Alaska that casts light on early Yup’ik life ravaged by ex-Typhoon HalongPHILADELPHIA — Archeologists studying ancient civilizations in northern Iraq during the 1930s also befriended the nearby Yazidi community, documenting their daily lives in photographs that were rediscovered after…
Read more Iraq’s Yazidis rediscover lost history through photos found in museum archiveAASUM, Denmark (AP) — In a village in central Denmark, archeologists made a landmark discovery that could hold important clues to the Viking era: a burial ground, containing…
Read more 50 well-preserved Viking Age skeletons unearthed in DenmarkAASUM, Denmark — AASUM, Denmark (AP) — In a village in central Denmark, archeologists made a landmark discovery that could hold important clues to the Viking era: a…
Read more In Denmark, 50 well-preserved Viking Age skeletons have been unearthed**EMBARGOED UNTIL 7:01 P.M. ET TUESDAY, JAN 30** Evolutionary biologists at Johns Hopkins Medicine report they have combined PET scans of modern pigeons along with studies of dinosaur…
Read more Scientists Pinpoint Growth of Brain’s Cerebellum as Key to Evolution of Bird FlightNewswise — Credit for discovering the first dinosaur bones usually goes to British gentlemen for their finds between the 17th and 19th centuries in England. Robert Plot, an English…
Read more Africans discovered fossils firstJoint press release Utrecht University and Natural History Museum Maastricht Newswise — The cradle of palaeontology – the study of fossil remains of animals and plants – lies…
Read more Mosasaurs had discriminating taste, palaeo-CSI findsNewswise — The fossils were found 40 years ago in north-eastern France. An international team of palaeontologists from the Naturkunde-Museum Bielefeld in Germany, the Institute of Paleobiology of…
Read more Ancient sea monster discovery reveals oldest mega-predatorNew research confirms that fossil human footprints in New Mexico are likely the oldest direct evidence of human presence in the Americas, a finding that upends what many…
Read more Evidence points to New Mexico footprints being the oldest sign of humans in AmericasNEW ORLEANS — Louisiana folklorist Nick Spitzer and Mississippi blues musician R.L. Boyce are among nine 2023 National Heritage Fellows set to be celebrated later this month by…
Read more Louisiana folklorist and Mississippi blues musician among 2023 National Heritage FellowsLIMA, Peru — Some archaeologists describe Peru’s capital as an onion with many layers of history, others consider it a box of surprises. That’s what some gas line…
Read more Workers uncover eight mummies and pre-Inca objects while expanding the gas network in PeruLIMA, Peru — Some archaeologists describe Peru’s capital as an onion with many layers of history, others consider it a box of surprises. That’s what some gas line…
Read more Workers uncover eight mummies and pre-Inca objects while expanding the gas network in PeruBYLINE: Laura Thomas Newswise — Plesiosaurs gained their famous long necks rapidly, researchers have shown. Their lengthy necks, used for chasing fast-moving fishes, developed quickly over a five…
Read more Plesiosaurs doubled their neck-length by gaining new vertebraeNewswise — A new study led by Archaeologist Michelle Bebber, Ph.D., an assistant professor in Kent State University’s Department of Anthropology, has demonstrated that the atlatl (i.e. spear…
Read more Prehistoric Women’s Use of Atlatl Weapons Balanced Division of Labor in HuntingNewswise — A system of ancient ceramic water pipes, the oldest ever unearthed in China, shows that neolithic people were capable of complex engineering feats without the need…
Read more China’s oldest water pipes were a communal effortBodies of dozens of children who died at a Native American boarding school have been lost for decades, a mystery that archeologists aim to unravel as they begin…
Read more In search of a lost cemetery, dig begins at a former Native American school in NebraskaNewswise — Researchers at the UCL Institute of Archaeology have discovered some of the largest early prehistoric stone tools in Britain. The excavations, which took place in Kent…
Read more Giant stone artefacts found on rare Ice Age site in KentNewswise — Markings on a cave wall in France are the oldest known engravings made by Neanderthals, according to a study published June 21, 2023 in the open-access…
Read more Neanderthal cave engravings are oldest known – over 57,000 years old
