anthropology

A pig painting inside an Indonesian cave has been dated to 43,900 years old, making it among the oldest—if not the…

One by one, the archaeologists stumbled upon pieces of junk. Using techniques typically reserved for documenting…

A thorough re-analysis of a skeleton belonging to a 2-year-old Neanderthal and the archaeological site in which it…

Archaeology is the closest thing we have to a time machine. Instead of using flux capacitors, however,…

There’s a cave in California, roughly an hour’s drive from Santa Barbara, whose ceiling features a prominent…

Conventional thinking in anthropology has it that prehistoric hunting was an activity reserved for males, while…

Four beautifully preserved llamas have been discovered at a ritual sacrifice site in Peru. The llamas, still wearing…

The prehistoric practice of using controlled fires to produce customized stone tools dates back 300,000 years,…

Chromium steel, commonly referred to as stainless steel, is thought to be a recent manufacturing innovation, but new…

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered seven well-preserved footprints belonging to humans. Dated to around…

The unusual placement of a sword found in a Viking grave suggests the weapon was brandished by a southpaw warrior,…

Using high-resolution, 3D X-ray scans, a team of researchers has digitally unwrapped and analyzed three mummified…

Archaeologists from South Africa have uncovered rudimentary beds that early humans made by placing bundles of grass…

Archaeologists in Bolivia have recovered a fully intact underwater Inca offering containing a miniature llama…

A 1,000-year-old recipe to treat eye infections could lead to an unorthodox way of combating antibiotic resistance.

Archaeological discoveries in a Mexican cave suggest humans reached North America some 30,000 years ago, which is a…

Her unsettling, seemingly agonized facial expression gave this ancient Egyptian mummy the nickname “screaming…

For archaeologists, ancient bones and stone tools are important lines of evidence, but sometimes the answers to our…

Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered the well-preserved remains of a cat that died over 1,000 years ago…

Indigenous South Americans reached islands in the South Pacific some 300 years before Christopher Columbus landed in…