Category: Arch/ Anthro

An international team led by IPHES-CERCA and CSIC, has uncovered evidence of cultural cannibalism among Magdalenian communities in Maszycka Cave, Poland.

Maszycka Cave is located 20 km’s north of Karakow in the Pradnik valley, where previous…

In new research, archaeologists analyzed five engraved artifacts from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic: two engraved Levallois cores from Manot and Qafzeh caves, an engraved plaquette from the site of Quneitra, as well as a flake and cortical…

A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa. These data can be compared with strontium levels…

Water engineers in ancient South America turned seasonally flooded Amazonian savannas into hotbeds of year-round maize farming.

Casarabe people built an innovative, previously unrecognized network of drainage canals and water-storing…

Written in Greek, this papyrus is a memorandum for a judicial hearing before a Roman official in the province of Judea or Arabia in the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian, after his visit to the region in 129/130 CE and before the outbreak of…

Paleoanthropologists have found 1.95-million-year-old cut-marked bones that appear to have been made by early hominins using stone tools at the site of Grăunceanu in Romania. The discovery sheds new light on the timing and extent of hominin…

The tomb of the First Emperor, also known as the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, is the burial complex of Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the Qin Dynasty and the first ruler to unify China.

During his lifetime, Qin Shi Huang became obsessed with…

Archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have discovered the ruins of a Byzantine-period monastery with a colorful mosaic floor and a Greek inscription, an ancient wine press and other buildings at Kiryat Gat, Israel.