1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (504+ words) A 70,000–100,000-year-old site in China’s Lower Yangtze region yielded 3,596 stone artifacts. Their size and manufacture point to a change in toolmaking, but not to a known species or a settled explanation. Stone tools in China’s Lower Yangtze region point to…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (678+ words) Researchers studying fallen Huashan rock art fragments found a lime-and-blood binder around red pigment. The possible link to childbirth remains an interpretation, not chemical proof. How did the Huashan rock art survive for roughly 2,000 years on limestone cliffs exposed to…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (555+ words) A stone can be millions of years older than the monument built from it. Measuring when its minerals formed therefore cannot, on its own, reveal when people dragged it into place. To date a stone circle, archaeologists usually reconstruct the…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (667+ words) An ancient iron object can look simple: a blade, nail, tool or fragment of a chain. Making it required a long chain of decisions, from finding ore and fuel to building a furnace and working the metal after it cooled....

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (675+ words) Murujuga in Western Australia holds one of the world’s largest concentrations of rock art, with engravings made over roughly 50,000 years. New research suggests that historic sulfur pollution may have altered a wider area of the carved rock than earlier assessments…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (559+ words) Ancient Egyptian artists were working with a much wider range of materials than the usual picture of "paint and glue" suggests. A new analysis of 28 microscopic samples from 14 painted objects found evidence for glues made from several animals, along with…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (103+ words) Stone tools from a Saudi Arabian desert site resemble Neanderthal technology, offering evidence of a possible Neanderthal presence 60,000–50,000 years ago. Before your next upload Clean image metadata before you share. Remove EXIF, GPS and common AI metadata before you share....

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (653+ words) Fragments of clothing have survived inside an eighth-century Viking woman’s grave in western Denmark, giving archaeologists a rare chance to study what she wore. The pieces were found attached to two concave "scoop" brooches from a burial at Skonager, near…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (433+ words) In the right sample, it can reveal relationships that bones alone cannot show: who was related, which groups moved, where populations mixed, and which genetic changes survived after a community disappeared. It can also show what ancient DNA cannot do....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (681+ words) How do archaeologists date pottery? Usually, they do not look at a single shard and read a year from it. A ceramic fragment becomes useful when its shape, clay, decoration, manufacturing technique and archaeological position are compared with other dated…...