2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1180+ words) A rare Viking Age burial in western Denmark is preserving something archaeologists almost never get to see: traces of the clothes worn by a young person some 1,300 years ago, still caught between the metal ornaments that once held them in…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (645+ words) Archaeologists excavating Early Iron Age burial mounds in Khakassia, southern Siberia, have discovered rare engravings of horses on a stone slab reused in a Tagar culture kurgan. The images may do more than add to the region’s prehistoric art: their…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (322+ words) Forskning & Framsteg (FoF), a Swedish popular-science magazine founded in 1966, first reported the story on its website, fof.se. Excavations at the site had already been running for three seasons, but nothing prepared the team for what surfaced this August in…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (632+ words) Sometimes the smallest objects carry the biggest stories. Buried deep in the hills of California’s interior, far from any ocean breeze, archaeologists uncovered a small, round bead carved from a giant rock scallop shell. It doesn’t look like much: barely…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (1159+ words) Fossil footprints preserved beside an ancient lake in northern Kenya have captured an extraordinary scene from approximately 1.43 million years ago: several large-bodied hominins walking through shallow water, possibly as part of the same social group. The tracks, discovered at the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1055+ words) New forensic evidence overturns the decades-old theory that the eight-year-old child died from hypothermia during an Inca ceremony high in the Andes. For more than 70 years, the death of the Inca child known as the Boy of Cerro El Plomo…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (825+ words) A child laid beside an adult in a medieval grave might appear to offer a familiar explanation: a parent and child buried together after dying at roughly the same time. Ancient DNA from Swedish cemeteries now shows that this interpretation…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1232+ words) Deep inside South Africa’s Kruger National Park, on a sandstone hill above the Limpopo and Luvuvhu rivers, the stone-walled remains of Thulamela still hold the outline of a powerful African kingdom. The study, published in Conservation and Management of Archaeological…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (678+ words) A 6,000-year-old infant skeleton from Tell Brak in northeastern Syria may preserve one of the earliest known cases of child abuse in the archaeological record, according to a study published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. The child, estimated to…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (950+ words) The oldest known lunar day count in Mesoamerica may have been hiding in plain sight on the carved stones of Monte Albán. Researchers have decoded a long-debated Zapotec symbol known as “Glyph W,” revealing that it recorded the visible age…...