After the Ice Age, people returned to the Swabian Jura around 19,500 years ago, 3000 years earlier than previously thought; the study is in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
A 600,000-year-old bone from Notarchirico, Italy, provides the earliest evidence of cave lions in southern Europe
Ancient Syrian diets resembled the modern “Mediterranean Diet”; researchers analyzed chemistry of plant, animal, human remains to study historic food chain
Cutmarks on a 4,000-year-old Egyptian skull could indicate an attempt at operating on excessive tissue growth or to learn more about cancer
University of Tübingen-led international research team investigates how our ancestors used the best material to make stone tools
Did Neanderthals use glue? Analysis of 40,000-year old tools reveals surprisingly sophisticated construction
Working over a period of five years, 30 specialists from Egypt and Germany have finished restoring the ceiling of the Temple of Esna
For the first time, a new study by an international research team shows Neanderthals hunted cave lions and used the pelt of this dangerous carnivore
Cranial traumas show dramatic increase as the first cities were being built: in the 12,000 years before antiquity, the share of violent death rose at first and then fell back
Archaeometallurgists have been debating the exact origin of tin used in the Bronze Age for 150 years; a new study in Frontiers in Earth Science