Prehistoric mining in the Pyrenees, a new species of tiny blue octopus, slapstick acoustics, and more. Malachite fragments recovered during […]
Category: Archaeology
Australian Aboriginals cared for a dingo’s grave for decades
For some ancient Aboriginal Australian communities, dingoes were part of the family. Archaeologists and Barkindji custodians worked together to excavate […]
Pompeii victim ID’d as a likely doctor
Archaeologists used a combination of advanced CT scans and 3D digital reconstruction to identify one of the Pompeii victims who […]
Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago
Two of the teeth were museum specimens, whose age and context curators didn’t know, making them less useful for other […]
DNA identifies four more crew members of doomed Franklin expedition
Skip to content “some very hard ground to heave” Three served on the HMS Erebus; the fourth was Petty Officer […]
Neanderthal brains measure up to ours—literally
(When we talk about “intelligence,” we’re describing something complex and, frankly, sort of nebulous; it’s impossible to really quantify, but […]
Ice Age dice show early Native Americans may have understood probability
Madden was able to conclusively identify 565 Native American dice from 45 different sites and designate an additional 94 artifacts […]
Damaged church floor may have revealed the grave of the fourth musketeer
Based on parish registers from other churches in the area, high-ranking officers who died during the siege would have been […]
Monte Verde site gets a new date, but the big picture doesn’t change
layers of debate (and debate about layers) Monte Verde site gets a new date, but the big picture doesn’t change […]
Study pinpoints when bow and arrow came to North America
At some point in North America, the atlatl was replaced by the bow and arrow, thanks to the latter’s increased […]