Study animal remains from archaeological sites to understand ancient diets, economy, and environments.
60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell engravings reveal humanity’s earliest geometric designs. Credit: Decembrini et al., PloS One (2026) More than 60,000 years ...
A new study in PLOS ONE links the rise of the Chincha Kingdom on Peru’s southern coast to seabird guano. ...
Archaeologists working at the Early Neolithic settlement of Eilsleben in Saxony-Anhalt have uncovered evidence of close contact between Europe’s first ...
Archaeologists in southern Spain have reported rare physical evidence linked with elephants used during the Punic Wars. A single elephant ...
Archaeologists studying the Tartessian site of Casas del Turuñuelo in western Spain have reconstructed the lives of animals sacrificed during ...
Archaeologists working in central Spain have documented strong evidence for a long-standing Neanderthal practice focused on the collection and placement ...
Archaeologists studying animal bones from Iron Age settlements in Bulgaria have found strong evidence for dog consumption between the fifth ...
New archaeological research places the active hunting of large whales in southern Brazil around 5,000 years ago, well before the ...
Archaeological research from the Templo Mayor Project offers new evidence for the long-debated practice of animal captivity in the ancient ...
Archaeologists have identified a tool dating to around 500,000 years ago made from elephant bone, at the Boxgrove site in ...
