Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Tintagel in Cornwall can be considered a ‘great site’ for a number of reasons, depending on personal perspective. For some, ...

Ehime Prefecture), Odake Shell Midden (Early Jomon period, Toyama City), Funagura Shell Midden (Early Jomon period, Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture), Kosaku Shell Midden (Late Jomon period ...

A recent study, conducted by Dr. Sara Juengst and her colleagues and published in Latin American Antiquity, sheds light on a ...

An archaeology breakthrough has discovered that humans inhabited rainforests around 150,000 years ago, a staggering 80,000 years earlier than previously believed. This revelation comes from an ...

The 2,000-year-old basilica was “once the beating heart of Roman London,” the Museum of London Archaeology said. By Claire Moses Reporting from London Archaeologists have unearthed the ...

But most are broken pieces, sometimes in middens, ancient household trash pits. So far, archaeologists have only unearthed one other set of intact figures from the spot they were likely laid to rest.

Like any good home, the pack rat nest has a bathroom-slash-trash area. In most places, these “middens” are gross and uninteresting—but in dry environments, the rat urine slowly crystallizes ...

Historic images of two of the most renowned ships to have plied New Zealand waters in the early 1800s have surfaced thanks to some dogged sleuthing by Whangārei maritime historian Don Armitage ...