Swedish archaeologists have uncovered a 5,000-year-old dog burial in what used to be a Stone Age fishing lake.

The previously unknown settlement appears to have been abandoned at some point in the 1300s, but researchers don't know why ...

The Romans knew their way around Europe. They also knew how to build with a view. A 2,000-year-old stone wall unearthed in a ...

The power station has actually yielded quite a few archaeological discoveries spanning numerous historical eras.

The Montelirio bead assemblage holds about 270,000 beads in a Copper Age tomb near Seville, Spain, marking buried women as ...

Archaeologists rarely expect clarity when surveying the ocean floor, since water tends to erase context rather than preserve ...

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The ability of the early toolmakers to select high-quality stone, produce sharp flakes, and return to familiar raw-material ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

Archaeologists often focus on what skeletal remains can tell about how and when ancient peoples died. But an individual’s ...

A cluster of prehistoric dugout canoes resting beneath Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, has been dated to as early as around 3000 BC, meaning at least one is older than Egypt’s Great Pyramid of ...

Teeth provide a wealth of information about the lives of Iron Age Italians, according to a study published in the open-access ...