Category: Arch/ Anthro

A mapping project of Tlayócoc Cave, located in the mountains of Guerrero, Mexico, has led to the discovery of ritual offerings deposited by an extinct group of the Tlacotepehua people.

The offerings were initially discovered by Adrián Beltrán…

A fossil jaw originally netted by fishermen off the ocean floor near Taiwan’s west coast belonged to a member of a mysterious hominid population known as Denisovans, scientists report in the April 11 Science.

Their new findings…

Archaeologists excavating at Gradishte, an archaeological site in the Bitola Municipality of North Macedonia, believe they may have uncovered the remains of Lyncus, the lost capital city of the ancient Kingdom of Lyncestis.

Gradishte was first…

Prehistoric hunter-gatherers were likely skilled seafarers who could make long and challenging journeys.

Stone tools, animal bones and other artifacts unearthed in Malta indicate that humans first inhabited the Mediterranean island…

Science is helping researchers judge books by their covers — and revealing surprising beneficiaries of medieval trading routes in the process.

Dozens of rare, fur-covered volumes from 12th and 13th century French monasteries are

Archaeologists have examined a pair of copper cymbals from Bronze Age Oman, shedding light on a shared musical tradition that connected cultures and supported trade across the Arabian Gulf.

Whether part of religious rituals, cultural celebrations,…

Archaeologists have unearthed a painted altar in the Maya city of Tikal, revealing architectural and artistic influences from the powerful Teotihuacan empire of central Mexico.

Located in the rainforests of Guatemala, Tikal was the capital of a…

Ritually important musical practices resounded across Bronze Age cultures from Arabia to South Asia, a pair of unusual discoveries suggest.

Excavations at a roughly 4,000-year-old settlement near the modern village of Dahwa in Oman…