Study animal remains from archaeological sites to understand ancient diets, economy, and environments.
The plague moved through Europe during the medieval period with devastating speed, causing millions of deaths as fleas spread Yersinia ...
A remarkably preserved Stone Age dog burial found in a bog in central Sweden has completely reshaped the current understanding ...
Archaeologists working in eastern Bulgaria have discovered one of the most unusual forms of prehistoric evidence: the skeletal remains of ...
Excavations at the ancient Red Sea port of Berenike in Egypt are rewriting scholars' understanding of exotic pet keeping in ...
A new study from Israel is shedding new light on how extinct relatives of modern humans hunted large animals, and ...
What is now considered the earliest mule known from the western Mediterranean and continental Europe was identified by researchers at ...
A new archaeological and genetic study has furnished the earliest direct evidence that European wildcats once roamed prehistoric Ireland. Researchers ...
Across the plains of what is now Ukraine, long before agriculture had revolutionized human life, groups of hunter-gatherers encountered winters ...
For tens of thousands of years, dogs have been in symbiosis with people across the vast range of Eurasia, but ...
Researchers for generations have tried to understand why Australia's Ice Age giants — enormous kangaroos, car-sized wombat-like creatures, and massive ...
