A recreation of three common types of Paleolithic lighting systems (torches, grease lamps, and fireplaces) illuminates how Paleolithic cave dwellers might have traveled, lived, and created in the depths of …
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Artist’s impression of a Squalicorax shark. Credit: Dimitri Bogdanov Scientists have found an unexplained cache of fossilized shark teeth in an area where there should be none — in a …
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Underwater archaeology team finds ancient obsidian flakes 2,000 miles from quarry. An underwater archaeologist from The University of Texas at Arlington is part of a research team studying 9,000-year-old stone …
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Objects including bone spoons, quernstones, and gaming pieces were incorporated into the walls of this Iron Age roundhouse at Broxmouth in NE Scotland. Credit: Broxmouth Project archive Holding onto everyday …
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Original excavation photograph of Tsukumo No. 24, courtesy of the Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, Kyoto University. Credit: Kyoto University Newspapers regularly carry stories of terrifying shark attacks, but in a …
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A fossilized bone in which crystal has grown in the marrow cavity. Long before human ancestors began hunting large mammals for meat, a fatty diet provided them with the nutrition …
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Static skull, mandible, and parietal orthographic. Credit: Tel Aviv University Dramatic Discovery in Israeli Excavation The discovery of a new Homo group in this region, which resembles Pre-Neanderthal populations in …
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Landscape views of scatters of qubbas around the Jebel Maman. Credit: Stefano Costanzo (CC-BY 4.0) Statistical methods designed for cosmology reveal tomb distribution in Sudan over millennia governed by environment …
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