Excavations in Ukraine uncovered ivory tools made nearly 400,000 years ago, pushing back the use of carved ivory by 300,000 ...

The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...

When Ohio’s Overfield Tavern Museum went up in flames in December 2024, it created a rare opportunity for archeologists to ...

The role of megafaunal exploitation in early human evolution remains debated. Occasional use of large carcasses by early hominins has been considered by some as opportunistic, possibly a fallback ...

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery at Kalambo Falls in Zambia, unearthing what is now considered the world’s ...

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests. This sandal woven from grasses and twigs, called an agobía, is somewhere between 727 and 771 years old, ...

In 2019, an international team of archaeologists embarked on an excavation near Kalambo Falls, along Zambia’s Kalambo River. There, they unearthed two notched logs, preserved by the waterlogged ...

Archaeologists have shed new light on the belief systems of early Mesolithic hunter-gatherers after analyzing cremated remains and artifacts given as grave offerings from the earliest recorded human ...

Archaeologists working in the Caucasus Mountains have uncovered a surprising piece of evidence that reshapes our understanding of Neanderthal intelligence and craftsmanship: a carefully carved bone ...

As reported on News Center 7 at 6:00, thousands of artifacts have been found buried under and around the building. “We knew that this was an intact site and that if we were going to do major ground ...

I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” sometimes hailed as the greatest British novel, in a rain forest in western Indonesia. I was there as a graduate student, spending my days slogging through mud and ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — After a newspaper reported in 1897 that the great American writer Mark Twain had died, a bemused -- but very much alive -- Twain famously quipped: "the report of my death ...