Toshiyuki Fujioka and Alfonso Benito-Calvo, researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), have recently published a paper in the Journal of Human Evolution with the results of burial dating using the cosmogenic nuclide isochron method, applied for the first time directly to the lithic industry of the Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)
Neandertal populations in the Iberian Peninsula were experiencing local extinction and replacement even before Homo sapiens arrived, according to a study published March 30, 2022 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Joseba Rios-Garaizar of the Archaeological Museum of Bilbao, Spain and colleagues
Archaeologists have identified evidence of 2,000-year-old beer production at a site of a road improvement scheme
Study contradicts idea of massive movement of people or hostile invasion
Now a team of researchers from the MPI for the Science of Human History is looking for new ways to bring the “smellscapes” of the past back to life and using smell to study past experience, behavior, and society
Archaeologists have revealed that a funerary bundle excavated in the southern necropolis at the Mausoleum Temple of Huaca Las Ventanas, located in the Lambayeque region of Peru contains the remains of a person who served as a surgeon in the Sican Culture period
Previously undeveloped photos reveal 8,000-year-old signs of mummification — the earliest evidence found anywhere in the world
The symbols may represent a naming system
New study spotlights drought, rather than temperature or other reasons, as key to Norse disappearance
New research published this week by University of New Mexico archeologist Keith Prufer shows that a site in Belize was critical in studying the origins of the ancient Maya people and the spread of maize as a staple food
An international team of researchers have provided new insight into the burial rituals of Çatalhöyük, considered the “oldest city in the world”
Egypt on Saturday displayed recently discovered, well-decorated ancient tombs at a Pharaonic necropolis just outside the capital Cairo