Daniel Pierce and Chris Bodine with the Missouri State University Center for Archaeological Research believe their findings ...

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

Excavations at a nuclear power site in the United Kingdom have revealed evidence of a "high-status" Anglo-Saxon burial.

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

For more than three decades, Ötzi the Iceman has been a kind of time capsule for researchers—an Alpine body preserved so well that it keeps producing scientific “firsts.” Now, a new analysis suggests ...

More than 14,000 years ago, a wolf pup ate a piece of woolly rhino. Scientists have analyzed the rhino's DNA to figure out ...

A 14,400-year-old wolf puppy’s last meal is shedding light on the last days of one of the Ice Age’s most iconic megafauna ...

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

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

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