3+ day, 4+ min ago   (503+ words) A new study pushes back the earliest known millet consumption in Bronze Age Europe by more than a century. Researchers found evidence of millet eating in southeastern Poland around 1590 BCE. The finding comes from a study of human remains from…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (581+ words) Intense wildfires in the ancient southern Levant might have helped Neolithic people develop pottery, according to a new study. The fires burned wide areas, stripped hillsides of plants and soil, and sent clay-rich earth into valleys. Amos Frumkin of the…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (581+ words) A new study of nearly 1,000 human bones from three Neolithic caves in southern Spain has found evidence of cannibalism at different times and under different social conditions. The research focused on Malalmuerzo, Carigüela and Majolicas caves in Granada, sites long…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (683+ words) Ancient Etruscan tombs may have been designed to shape how people saw, heard and felt during funeral rites, according to a new study of two painted tombs in Tarquinia, Italy. The study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Method and…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago   (529+ words) A new study of Dutch skeletal remains shows how hard child labor damaged growing spines between the 17th and 19th centuries. Researchers examined the remains of 143 children and young adults aged about 4 to 25 years from three Dutch populations dating from 1650 to 1850. The…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (519+ words) For decades, scientists have used the human pelvis to study a basic question about our evolution: how did our ancestors balance walking upright with giving birth to large-brained babies? The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (479+ words) A new study has overturned a long-held idea about when farming reached Ireland. Bone fragments from Ferriter’s Cove, once seen as the earliest signs of domestic cattle, came from a bear and a wild boar. Ferriter’s Cove sits on the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (468+ words) A 4,000-year-old painted stone plaque from an Indonesian island offers new evidence about the spread of Austronesian culture across the Pacific. Archaeologists found the plaque at Huknaur rockshelter on Wetar Island, in eastern Indonesia. An international team from The Australian…...