Climate chaos: Chinchorro mummies of Chile
How climate change is threatening world’s oldest mummies. Chile’s Atacama Desert is the driest place on earth. Near the modern port of...
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The Australian 'Silk Road'
Work in Mithaka homeland reveals vast ancient Australian network. One of the (numerous) myths about ancient Australian Aborigines...
The Indus Civilisation diet
Leftovers in prehistoric pots reveal carby diet of a lost civilisation. Food residue analysis has produced rich dividends in the complex...
Visual psychology and the origins of modern human art
Ground-breaking research by the University of Durham, UK, explores the origins of art through the way humans see; as published in the...
The coloured skeletons of Çatalhöyük, Turkey
New insights into early mortuary practices at Çatalhöyük, with some skeletons buried, reburied, and partially painted. Çatalhöyük in...
Origin of Tutankhamun's mysterious dagger
Latest on manufacture and origin of Tutankhamun’s unusual meteoritic iron dagger. Tutankhamun has generated many controversies, which...
Earliest ochre processing in China
Archaeologists discover 40,000-year-old ochre processing site at Ximabei, China. The Nihewan Basin in northern China has a human past...
Rethinking dog domestication
Researchers explain why the old story of the ‘mean wolf that turned into the friendly dog’ may be wrong. The domestication of dogs has...
Mummies at Cajamarquilla, Peru
Sacrificed children and adults found with pre-Inca elite man. Cajamarquilla is Peru’s second largest pre-Inca city. Located 21km inland...
Colonialism and wildfires
New research shows Australia’s forests became major fire risk in post-colonial era. Australian wildfires make international headlines...
Neolithic fisherman drowned
Enhanced forensic testing reveals ancient fisherman, found in mass grave in Northern Chile, drowned in saltwater. A 5,000 year-old case...
Homo sapiens at Mandrin Cave
Mandrin cave in France pushes back earliest date for Homo sapiens in France to c.54,000 years ago, and offers new insights on our links...
Burton Agnes drum
Chalk drum billed as Britain’s most important prehistoric art discovery in a century. A 5,000-year-old chalk ‘talisman’, unearthed on a...
Was Stonehenge from Wales?
As we get ready for the British Museum’s new exhibition on Stonehenge (opens 17th February) we ask: did Stonehenge come from Wales? Back...
Volcanic findings
Researchers find link between a series of volcanic eruptions from around the world, low Nile floods, and agricultural catastrophe in...
World's first-known cuppa
Oldest-known evidence for brewed tea found in China and dated to 453-410 BC. Chinese tea is some of the finest in the world. Its...
We just got older
New minimum age determined for Homo sapiens in eastern Africa. Ethiopia has long been a major focus of research into early human...
Myth of the Great Horse
Researchers at Exeter University, UK, radically resize medieval warhorse. Think medieval warhorses and fully armoured knights riding into...
Dead serious drinking
Evidence for 9,000 year-old funerary beer found in Southern China. Alcoholic beverages have long had important ritual associations at...
California fish find
Like a pin(bone) in a haystack, archaeologist finds Atlantic cod in chaos of Thompson Cove, San Francisco. Gadus morhua, the Atlantic...
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