We tend to picture the origins of pottery in the first farming villages, where clay jars were used to store grain and other food. The Upper Tigris Valley tells a different story. Around 9350 B.C., at ...

Huaca de la Luna y el Sol, where evidence of extensive human sacrifice apparently associated with El Niño events has been uncovered. Credit: Tyler Bell / Flickr A 25-year study of 1,633 skeletons from ...

An international team led by Curtin University in Australia has found heme, the molecule that lets blood carry oxygen, inside oval structures that resemble red blood cells in a 115-million-year-old ...

Rock art in the King’s Grave at Kivik (Kiviksgraven) in southern Sweden, an exceptionally large Bronze Age burial monument dating to c. 1500 BCE, coinciding with the expansion of East Scandinavian ...

The only ancient historian who explains why Rome invaded Britain points to a single exiled ruler. He gives the ruler’s name as “Bericus” and treats him as a man. Nearly two centuries after the event, ...

Bronze is mostly copper with a smaller share of tin, and the copper that prehistoric miners could reach was scattered unevenly across Europe. When researchers ask where the continent’s Bronze Age ...

A carved step from Ocomtún has yielded a probable original name for a newly found Maya settlement in Campeche—and a rare ...

When archaeologists working on the route of the A14 highway between Cambridge and Huntingdon emptied a shallow ditch at the ...

In April 2008, a genetic study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics fundamentally changed how we tell the ...