Clay fragments from Çemka Höyük in Turkey reveal how people tested ceramic containers 11,000 years ago, before pottery spread ...

A new Nature study dates the Taung Child to about 3 million years ago and shows the human family tree in southern Africa was ...

Radiocarbon dates for six Danish monastery burials came out centuries too old. Researchers blame a diet heavy in freshwater fish.

Archaeologists solved a 10-year mystery of 8,000 frog bones found near Cambridge. Owls hunted them 1,700 years ago in Roman ...

A 2,500-year-old sheep bone carved with two birds was found on Berezan Island. Researchers link that to a private ritual ...

Archaeologists found Eastern Europe's oldest Acheulean tools at Khryashchi, a 450,000-year-old site that points to early ...

New research shows ninth-century Northumbria had plenty of silver and gold, yet its kings chose to debase their coins on ...

Archaeologists at the Dachau memorial site found 35 SS dog kennels and ash layers with bone fragments next to the former ...

Archaeologists at Le Cesine in southern Italy found a port older than Hadrian's pier and a site where workers likely made ...

A study of 1,659 skeletons from Peru's Lambayeque Valley finds only 1.6% had violent head injuries, and climate swings didn't ...