A routine archaeological excavation ahead of a new housing development near Gloucester, England, has revealed a remarkably preserved 3,500-year-old Bronze Age well. What initially appeared to be ...

It’s also a gateway to a huge collection of pig jaws.

The human desire to collect, and recycle items, to hold onto things from the past, is not as new as people would like to think, according to researchers from Tel Aviv University. The study, led by PhD ...

Archaeologists have undertaken pioneering scans of the highest prehistoric paintings of animals in Europe. Archaeologists at the University of York have undertaken pioneering scans of the highest ...

In 1972, a young excavator operator working near Varna noticed something glittering in the dirt. He pulled out a bracelet, ...

11:46, Sat, Feb 8, 2025 Updated: 11:48, Sat, Feb 8, 2025 A collection of Stone Age relics have unveiled signs of advanced cognitive and symbolic behaviour in prehistoric humans. The new research, ...

An archaeological survey has identified traces of hundreds of previously unknown monuments—including five "incredibly rare" prehistoric structures that may have once marked "routes for the dead" into ...

18:48, Tue, Nov 24, 2020 Updated: 21:00, Tue, Nov 24, 2020 New research led by universities in the UK has uncovered evidence linking prehistoric cave paintings in California and a poisonous flower ...

Tensions, pluralities, and engendering archaeology : an introduction to women and prehistory / Margaret W. Conkey and Joan M. Gero -- Gender theory and the archaeological record : why is there no ...

A submerged prehistoric structure has been found to be far older than once thought, according to a new study. The findings shed new light on the early human settlement of the Balearic Islands in the ...

One look at the bulging buttocks of the squat female figurine and British Archaeologist James Mellaart recognized a Stone Age fertility symbol; the dig he was starting on a plain in southern Turkey ...