The team also said the grave was unusual for its small circular shell beads, which served as personal adornments.

An excavation in Italy has unearthed the oldest and first known evidence of father-daughter incest in the archaeological record, a new genetic study reveals. The team found genetic clues of this ...

For decades, research and understanding of the diverse bone raw material used by the Late Prehispanic Period (~1220 to 330 ...

A Wyoming archaeological site where people killed or scavenged a Columbian mammoth nearly 13,000 years ago has produced yet another discovery that sheds light on the life of these early inhabitants of ...

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian mummification practice more familiar to modern Western ...

Bone diagenesis refers to the complex series of physical, chemical and biological processes that modify bone tissues after burial. This alteration affects both the organic and inorganic components, ...

Two thousand years ago, someone in a quiet Roman frontier village carefully packed a bone full of potent, mind-bending seeds — and sealed it for safekeeping. Archaeologists have opened it, and it has ...

Archaeologists now have an approximate time frame for when a very old hearth was used in La Veta, about an hour southwest of Pueblo. It was discovered during excavation work for a drainage project at ...

Behind the daily stream of geopolitical tensions and conflicts, 2025 also offered new perspectives on humanity’s connection ...

Some people in Ukraine weathered the harshest moments of the last ice age by creating shelters made partly of mammoth bones and tusks.

Researchers excavating at a site in northern Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge have unearthed bone implements made by human ancestors 1.5 million years ago. This is around a million years earlier than scholars ...