An international research team has confirmed the earliest known genetic diagnosis in an anatomically modern human, identifying a rare skeletal...
Chemical analysis of residue inside a small Roman glass vial has produced the first direct physical evidence that human feces...
About 5,500 to 6,000 years ago, hunter-fisher-gatherers lived across what is now Finland. These communities, known to archaeologists as the...
Archaeologists have documented a well-preserved Bronze Age hilltop settlement at Harden Quarry in the Cheviot Hills of northern England. The...
Researchers working in central China have identified stone tools shaped for attachment to handles between 160,000 and 72,000 years ago....
Researchers working in southern Greece have identified the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dated to about 430,000 years ago. The...
Archaeologists from Oxford Cotswold Archaeology completed a large-scale excavation of a Roman cemetery linked to the fort and settlement at...
Scientists recovered the oldest known genome of Treponema pallidum from human remains dated to about 5,500 years ago in the...
Archaeologists have identified a tool dating to around 500,000 years ago made from elephant bone, at the Boxgrove site in...
A faded hand outline on a limestone wall in southeast Sulawesi now holds the oldest known date for rock art....
