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Scientists reveal the face of a Neanderthal who lived 75,000 years ago
CNN.com· 2 days agoKnown as Shanidar Z, after the cave in Iraqi Kurdistan where she was found in 2018, the woman was a...
Archaeologists find rare item worth more to Romans than its weight in gold
Newsweek· 16 hours agoAn incredibly rare Roman-era object—made from a substance that was once worth more than its weight...
Beautifully crafted Roman dodecahedron discovered in Lincoln—but what were they for?
Phys.org· 55 minutes agoDodecahedra are quite intricate, featuring a number of round holes, with knobs framing the holes. It...
Archaeologists discover ancient Egyptian pharaoh's fortified royal retreat
Newsweek· 3 hours agoArchaeologists have unearthed the remains of an ancient Egyptian fortified royal retreat. The...
Ancient Hun grave found in Poland reveals ‘rare’ glimpse into Asian nomadic warriors
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoInside of an ancient grave in Poland, archaeologists found the skeletal remains of two young boys...
Archaeologists find prehistoric settlement "surprisingly" survived crisis
Newsweek· 18 hours agoArchaeologists investigating a submerged prehistoric settlement have found that it surprisingly managed to survive a period of climate instability that occurred around 8,200 years ago. The village ...
Was the Stone Age Actually the Wood Age?
New York Times· 6 hours agoNeanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed. In 1836, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian, brought the first ...
New England stone walls lie at the intersection of history, archaeology, ecology and geoscience, and...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA typical New England stone wall in Hebron, Conn. Robert M. Thorson, CC BY-ND The abandoned...
Archaeology team discovers a 7,000-year-old settlement in Serbia
Phys.org· 4 days agoTogether with cooperation partners from the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad (Serbia), the National Museum Zrenjanin and the National Museum Pančevo, a team from the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence ...
Things to do: Sheep to Shawl, archaeology open house at Willamette Heritage Center
Statesman Journal via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe center's 38th annual Sheep to Shawl celebration — called "an exciting day of woolly wonder" by...