Neolithic agricultural Revolution in southern Levant linked to climate-driven wildfires and soil erosion, according to a new study in the Journal of Soils and Sediments
Ancient Auditorium Discovered in the Gymnasium of Agrigento; Archaeologists uncover unique ensemble from antiquity during excavations on Sicily
Primate evolution comes into sharper focus – new radioisotopic dating, Argon-Argon (⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar), marks a breakthrough in the study of volcanic deposits
Fire in the Ice Age: evidence from the Epigravettian at Korman’ 9, Middle Dniester Valley, Ukraine; a study published in Geoarchaeology
A fossil mandible was discovered on the seabed of the Penghu Channel in Taiwan; it belonged to a male Denisovan
What Syriac scribes chose to keep: a digital dive into 1,000 manuscripts, with a new measurement called Excerpts Per Manuscript (EPM) to track…
The “mega-village” of Valencina de la Concepción, a large sustainable and egalitarian community at the height of the Copper Age
The Roman Brick Stamps of Trier – A Contribution to Research on the Organization of Ancient Building Ceramics Production and Distribution for the Expansion of a Metropolis in Northern Gaul
A new study reveals a long-isolated North African human lineage in the Central Sahara during the African Humid Period more than 7,000 years ago
Population surveillance, diverse religions and tolerance in the Ottoman Empire 200 years ago; a study in Comparative Studies in Society and History
Chemical analysis yields first evidence of wine from depas goblets, that even common people drank it in Troy
In-depth chemical analysis of three key 12th century medieval bronze doors by Barisanus of Trani uncovers which is the oldest and reveals how they were made; the analysed doors are from Trani, Ravello, Monreale
Cuneiforms: new digital tool for Researchers, thanks to the Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum Digitalis (TLHdig) which was launched on the Hethitologie-Portal Mainz platform (HPM)
The frontiers of El Argar, the first state-society in the Iberian Peninsula, with its La Mancha and Valencia Bronze Age neighbours
Cleveland Museum of Natural History researchers propose new hypothesis for the origin of stone tools: an origin of stone knapping via the emulation of Mother Nature
Atapuerca rewrites the history of Europe’s first inhabitants with the oldest known face in Western Europe: a fossil of Homo affinis erectus from Sima del Elefante
First burials: Neanderthal and Homo sapiens interactions in the Mid-Middle Palaeolithic Levant discovered at Tinshemet Cave
‘You don’t just throw them in a box.’ Archaeologists, Indigenous scholars call on museums to better care for animal remains
The oldest collection of prehistoric bone tools from Olduvai Gorge, mass-produced by hominins during the transition from Oldowan to Acheulean
The first Bronze Age settlement predating the Phoenician period in Maghreb, Morocco, has been found at Kach Kouch
