Your pet dog -- and every other dog in the world -- most likely descended from a single population of wolves that lived 20,000 to 40,000 years ago, according to a new study in the journal Nature ...

Murdering sacrificial victims by tying their necks to their legs bent behind their backs may have been a “cultural phenomenon” in late Stone Age Europe, a new study of bodies uncovered in France ...

A new collagen fingerprinting tool can help scientists identify species from archaeological bone fragments. Pacific islanders of the late Stone Age, also known as the Neolithic period, were master ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered groundbreaking evidence connecting prehistoric facial piercings to the bodies of the people who wore them. Personal adornment — including earring-like objects ...

The earliest sites from the UAE, known prior to the latest discoveries, have been dated to the Neolithic or Late Stone Age period, around 7,500 years ago. The discoveries were made at Jebel Faya, ...

Archaeologists uncover a massive Bronze age fortification on Papuk Mountain, revealing one of Croatia’s best-preserved ...

Archaeologists have discovered evidence which may shed new light on the distant origins of British identity - at an ancient festival site. It’s long been known that the word Britain is derived from a ...

Experts from the Olomouc Archaeological Center recently uncovered a large Celtic cremation burial site dating to the 3rd–2nd centuries BC. Besides this, skeletal graves belonging to the 9th–10th ...

At first, it was just a cluster of bone plates peeking from the shallow Siberian soil. In the summer of 2004, during a modest archaeological survey in the Kerdugen area of Russia’s Sakha Republic, one ...

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