On New Jersey hillside, clues to Revolutionary War mystery
On a gently sloping hillside studded with pine trees, clues to a Revolutionary War mystery are slowly being revealed, spurred by the dogged efforts of a local historian and his teenage son.
View ArticleNew archaeological method finds children were skilled ceramists during the...
Artisanal interpretation of ceramics from the Bronze Age shows that a nine-year-old child could be a highly skilled artisan. This was one of the discoveries presented in a new thesis from Lund...
View ArticleInsect poop threatens to damage marble at India's Taj Mahal (Update)
Swarms of insects breeding in a polluted river near the Taj Mahal are threatening the intricate marble inlay work at the 17th century monument to love by leaving green and black patches of waste on its...
View ArticleFriends, Romans: help restore Rome's ruins, monuments
Rome has pleaded for patrons to help pay for the restoration and maintenance of some of the hundreds of fountains, monuments, archaeological sites and historical streets in the Italian capital.
View ArticleRemains of rice and mung beans help solve a Madagascan mystery
Researchers have helped solve one of the enduring mysteries of the ancient world: why the inhabitants of Madagascar speak Malagasy, a language otherwise unique to Southeast Asia and the Pacific - a...
View ArticleDogs were domesticated not once, but twice... in different parts of the...
The question, 'Where do domestic dogs come from?', has vexed scholars for a very long time. Some argue that humans first domesticated wolves in Europe, while others claim this happened in Central Asia...
View ArticleArchaeology suggests no direct link between climate change and early human...
Environmental records obtained from archaeological sites suggest climate may not have been directly linked to cultural and technological innovations of Middle Stone Age humans in southern Africa,...
View ArticleBioarchaeologist studies dental remains to explore the ancient people and...
Papyrus molders, stone etchings erode, memories wither and histories are rewritten. Teeth remain. Several thousand years from now, our teeth may document our lives more faithfully than any recording...
View ArticleTeam takes different paths to two major archeological finds this summer
A team of Duke scholars and students spent this summer at two historic sites in Italy and made significant discoveries. The team, based in part in the dig@lab, a digital laboratory run by Maurizio...
View ArticleTracking down the first chefs
A study led by Antonio J. Romero at the UPV/EHU's Department of Geography, History and Archaeology and published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports has shown that human bites on bones...
View ArticleNeanderthals' failure to make parkas may have sealed their demise
(Phys.org)—A quartet of researchers at Simon Fraser University in Canada has found evidence that suggests that the reason early humans were able to survive the ice age while the Neanderthal perished is...
View ArticleArchaeological excavations finds 26K artifacts in New Mexico
Crews conducting archaeological excavations for an electrical transmission line project southeastern New Mexico have uncovered 26,000 artifacts.
View ArticlePublic archaeologists dig before the construction crews do
Armed with my sharpened trowel, 3-meter tape, shovel, shaker screen and peanut butter and jelly sandwich, I joined my first dig as part of Binghamton University's Public Archaeology Facility back in...
View Article8,000-year-old female figurine uncovered in central Turkey
Archaeologists have uncovered a rare stone figurine of a woman dating back 8,000 years at a dig in Turkey's central province of Konya that an expert says is one of only handful of statuettes of the era...
View ArticleNew evidence suggests ancient jewelry at Grotte du Renne cave made by...
(Phys.org)—A team with members from across Europe has found evidence that suggests bone fragments found with ancient jewelry in the Grotte du Renne cave at Arcy-sur-Cure (in France) show that they were...
View ArticleMaritime archaeology expedition in Black Sea
An expedition mapping submerged ancient landscapes, the first of its kind in the Black Sea, is making exciting discoveries.
View ArticleArchaeological evidence at major risk in wetlands
Important archaeological remains at wetland sites across the world could be at immediate risk, say scientists at the University of York.
View ArticleProject to map the history of the Milky Way
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains at least 100 billion stars. Over the centuries, astronomers have scoured the skies, developing a thorough understanding of the lives of those stars, from their...
View ArticleSwedish and Greek archaeologists discover unknown city in Greece
An international research team at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, is exploring the remains of an ancient city in central Greece. The results can change the view of an...
View ArticleFrench museum employee sold stolen fossils online
A French employee at the Orleans Museum of Natural History was found guilty and handed a three-month suspended sentence for stealing hundreds of stones and fossils dating back to the Neolithic era and...
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