A sweeping genetic investigation is reshaping what researchers know about the first journeys of modern humans into Australia and its...
For the first time since the San José galleon sank beneath the Caribbean more than three centuries ago, a set...
A new study provides the strongest evidence yet that long, recurring droughts played a decisive role in reshaping — and...
A new archaeological and genetic study has furnished the earliest direct evidence that European wildcats once roamed prehistoric Ireland. Researchers...
A new genetic study is providing the most detailed picture to date of the people who built Shimao, a vast...
Across the plains of what is now Ukraine, long before agriculture had revolutionized human life, groups of hunter-gatherers encountered winters...
According to a recent publication, archaeologists working at the medieval fortress of Zorita de los Canes in central Spain unearthed...
For generations, the limestone rock shelters of southwest Texas and northern Mexico have hidden some of the most spectacular ancient...
The Aska head (left; photograph by O. Myrin, Swedish Historical Museums, CC BY 4.0) and the Rällinge figurine (right; photograph...
For the first time, researchers have presented the most detailed digital reconstruction of Rano Raraku, the main quarry on Easter...
