The British have suffered for their fashion for centuries according to a new study suggesting that a vogue for shoes with a pointed tip led to a sharp increase in hallux valgus of the big toe in the late medieval period
Organic residue indicates a diverse and varied culinary culture across Sicily
The University of North Florida archaeology team is now fairly confident they have located the lost Indigenous northeast Florida community of Sarabay
A new group moved into East Asia about 19,000 years ago
Ancient chickens lived significantly longer than their modern equivalents because they were seen as sacred—not food—archaeologists have found
“Ornaments composed of elk teeth suspended from or sown on to clothing emit a loud rattling noise when moving,” says auditory archaeologist and Academy of Finland Research Fellow Riitta Rainio from the University of Helsinki
Archaeological finds suggest that people developed numbers tens of thousands of years ago. Scholars are now exploring the first detailed hypotheses about this life-changing invention
Archaeologists conducting excavations in Old Dongola (Sudan), have discovered the remains of a large church from medieval Nubia, that could have been a cathedral and seat of an archbishop
Archaeologists working in the district of Tübingen in southwest Germany have discovered the region’s earliest gold object to date
A new approach to understand the functional and symbolic uses of the place
New research has questioned theories that a mysterious group of hunter-gatherers from Indonesia interacted with Aboriginal Australians thousands of years ago and provides a basis for future understanding of the people who made tiny, but precise implements out of stone
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, was a short interval of highly elevated global temperatures 56 million years ago that is frequently described as the best ancient analog for present-day climate warming
