Category: Arch/ Anthro

Homo erectus, an early member of the genus Homo, successfully navigated harsher and more arid terrains for longer in Eastern Africa than previously thought, according to new research.

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As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back.

A trove of engraved stones unearthed from ritual gathering sites on Bornholm,…

Paleoanthropologists have characterized the properties of raw stone materials that were selected and used by Early Pleistocene tool-makers at an Acheulian site in the Ethiopian Highlands between 1.6 and 1 million years ago.

The Paleolithic rock shelter of Ségognole 3 in the Paris Basin contains a miniature representation of the surrounding landscape, says a team of archaeologists from the University of Adelaide and the MINES Paris – PSL.

Archaeologists from the Oxford Cotswold Archaeology (OCA) have discovered a hoard of 321 mint-condition silver coins (319 full pennies plus two cut halfpence) dating to the 11th century CE near the site of the future nuclear power station on…

High-resolution UAV-based aerial survey of Dmanisis Gora, a Bronze-Age mega-fortress in Georgia, the South Caucasus, has revealed the extent of the large outer fortification system and settlement, which has few documented parallels in the…

Researchers have examined three ice core records to identify lead pollution levels in the Arctic between 500 BCE through 600 CE. Lead isotopes allowed the authors to identify mining and smelting operations throughout Europe as the likely…

Archaeologists say they have extracted a wide variety of starch grains from stone tools found at an early Middle Pleistocene site in Israel. These include acorns, grass grains, water chestnuts, yellow water lily rhizomes, and legume seeds.

Scientists from Tel Aviv University have conducted geochemical surveys at two smelting camps — dating back to the 10th century BCE, the era of the Biblical Kings David and Solomon — in Timna Valley in the Southern Arabah, southern Israel….