A new study highlights the key role the Southern Ocean plays in the Earth’s climate system. Around 12,000 years ago, the last ...

A 5,400-year-old grave containing 140 pieces of amber has been found in the city of Karelia, a splendid burial site.

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an 8,500-year-old obsidian mirror at Canhasan in central Turkey, one of the oldest settlements ...

If there were a place that could be called the archaeological almanac of Saudi Arabian culture, it would be Tell Abraq, ...

State archaeologists and geologists are working together to solve a more than 10,000-year-old mystery at the Piney Grove archaeological site near Reisterstown, building on discoveries first made in ...

Humans navigate today's world with a genetic profile largely the same as that of our Paleolithic ancestors, which has ...

Read the issue » The Stones of Stenness are part of one of Europe’s richest archeological landscapes—the legacy of a ...

Late in Queens of the Stone Age‘s strange and wonderful night in Hollywood on Tuesday, singer Josh Homme paused to state the obvious. “I know it’s all a bit strange and unusual, and a little ...

A new collagen fingerprinting tool can help scientists identify species from archaeological bone fragments. Pacific islanders of the late Stone Age, also known as the Neolithic period, were master ...

Most Bronze Age settlements have been documented in European territory. Despite its geographical proximity, the Maghreb (northern Africa minus Egypt) has always been absent from these historical ...

Archaeologists in eastern Norway have made a remarkable discovery that illuminates the sophisticated craftsmanship of our Stone Age ancestors. During an excavation in Horten, where forest land will ...