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5 days ago · Archaeology 12,000-year-old rock art hints at the Arabian Desert’s lush past Newly found engravings of animals on rock outcrops in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud desert show nomads lived there …
Archaeology’s top discoveries of 2024 include preserved brains and a ...
Dec 17, 2024 · From the plight of ancient Egyptian scribes to the identities of ancient Maya sacrifices, 2024 brought a rich medley of insights into human history.
A race to save Indigenous trails may change the face of archaeology
Oct 29, 2024 · As construction of a pipeline nears, an effort to preserve an Indigenous trail in Canada tests whether heritage management can keep up with advances in archaeology.
Stone Age hunter-gatherers may have been surprisingly skilled seafarers
Apr 9, 2025 · New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.
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Feb 27, 2025 · Archaeology Here’s how ancient Amazonians became master maize farmers Casarabe people grew the nutritious crop year-round on savannas thanks to networks of drainage canals and …
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Jun 5, 2025 · Archaeology Neandertals invented bone-tipped spears all on their own An 80,000-year-old bone point found in Eastern Europe challenges the idea that migrating Homo sapiens gave the …
Rethinking archaeology and place - Science News
Nov 2, 2024 · Pompeii. Machu Picchu. Stonehenge. Angkor Wat. The Great Pyramid of Giza. Those of us who grew up in Western cultures tend to think of archaeology as the study of a place — a point on …
12,000-year-old rock art hints at the Arabian Desert’s lush past
Sep 30, 2025 · Sahout Rock Art and Archaeology Project Paleoclimatologist Paul Wilson of the University of Southampton in England says the research by Petraglia and his colleagues shows how …
A huge, ancient Maya city has been found in southern Mexico
Nov 6, 2024 · Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.
The oldest known ritual chamber in the Middle East has been found
Dec 9, 2024 · Engravings and other evidence suggest ancient humans attended religious ceremonies in the cave as early as 37,000 years ago.