This is what it might have looked like around 125,000 years ago: a European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) next to the foot of a European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus). Credit: ...
The site Jojosi 5 with clearly visible accumulations of stone artifacts – Stone Age knapping workshops – which were uncovered during excavations. Credit: University of Tübingen / Manuel Will An ...
A team of archaeologists has unearthed at the site of Küllüoba, in Anatolia, a charred bread dating between 3200 and 3000 BC. The discovery reveals that our ancestors were already mixing cereals and ...
Late Pleistocene (13,000 to 11,700 BP), Early Holocene (11,700 to 8,000 BP), Middle Holocene (8,000 to 2,000 BP), and Late Holocene (2,000 to 450 BP) diagnostic and probable prehistoric Native ...
A new analysis of sky photographs taken between 1954 and 1957, before the launch of the first satellite, has found 35 luminous events lasting less than one second that cannot be explained by ...
A paleontological site discovered in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan has yielded more than 700 fossil specimens that force a rewriting of the opening chapters in the history of complex ...
For more than a thousand years, West African gold was one of the most coveted commodities in the world. It first fueled the ...
Jiajing, twelfth Chinese emperor of the Ming dynasty, ascended the throne in an unusual way: by decision of the government, ...
A team of archaeologists has succeeded in establishing the genetic relationships among individuals buried in chambered tombs ...
A team of researchers from Guatemala and Mexico has documented an exceptional discovery in Maya dental archaeology: a lower ...
In an era where voice messages and ephemeral videos compete for attention, writing has remained, for millennia, the fundamental support of cultural memory. It stores knowledge, tells stories, and ...
For decades, geochemists have used the different varieties of lead as a kind of infallible geological clock to date the formation of rocks and understand the processes of planetary accretion that ...