An 8,000-year-old skeleton discovered deep within a flooded cave system on Mexico's Caribbean coast is shedding new light on the prehistoric inhabitants of the Yucatán Peninsula. The remains, found by ...

The human desire to collect, and recycle items, to hold onto things from the past, is not as new as people would like to think, according to researchers from Tel Aviv University. The study, led by PhD ...

Charred hazelnut shells discovered at an archaeological site in Cornwall have pushed back the date for the arrival of the Neolithic period in the region by at least a century. New radiocarbon dating ...

Beats finding a seashell.

Archaeologists have undertaken pioneering scans of the highest prehistoric paintings of animals in Europe. Archaeologists at the University of York have undertaken pioneering scans of the highest ...

The evidence shows that the ‘Ubeidiya site is at least one million nine hundred thousand years old. This finding represents a ...

11:46, Sat, Feb 8, 2025 Updated: 11:48, Sat, Feb 8, 2025 A collection of Stone Age relics have unveiled signs of advanced cognitive and symbolic behaviour in prehistoric humans. The new research, ...

A double burial in Ukraine of two women from the Late Scythian culture contains a toxic red mineral, but exactly why it was used remains a mystery.

Tensions, pluralities, and engendering archaeology : an introduction to women and prehistory / Margaret W. Conkey and Joan M. Gero -- Gender theory and the archaeological record : why is there no ...

Following the recent inscription of the Faya Palaeolandscape on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the Government of Sharjah, ...

One look at the bulging buttocks of the squat female figurine and British Archaeologist James Mellaart recognized a Stone Age fertility symbol; the dig he was starting on a plain in southern Turkey ...

Six one-year Short-Term Research Grants of up to AED 100,000 each, distributed over three years (two per year). Part of the ...