At the cutting edge: biographies of Orcadian Neolithic axes

Birch bark tar was widely used throughout prehistoric Europe for hafting stone tools as well as various other purposes. While previous research has mainly focused on the identification and production ...

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Study has revealed new insights into Stone Age life and death, showing that stone tools were just as likely to be buried with women and children as with men.

Published in World Archaeology (Vol. 56, No. 2, 2024)

Animal teeth were amongst the most common materials utilised for personal ornament production during the Stone Age, especially in the Northern Hemisphere. The hunter-gatherer cemetery site of Zvejniek...

Research shows teeth used in prehistoric jewellery were extracted after a carcass was slow-cooked.

Prehistoric people used a culinary method, similar to slow cooking today, to carefully extract animal teeth to use in decorative crafts, such as pendant-making, archaeologists have shown.

The University of Manchester and Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales have been awarded a  £1.25 million research grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) following the discovery of an Iron ...

Objects reveal rich histories through their materials, crafting, and use, offering insights into past lives, beliefs, and interactions.

This pilot research presents the first study integrating digital submillimetre image-based 3D modelling with experimental archaeology to examine how s…

Learning Archaeology is designed for undergraduate archaeology students, helping them develop interpretive skills in the classroom through problem-oriented, active learning exercises. This book brings...

Buried in the sand and floating down the river, pieces of an ancient waka have been found, but their origin and age remains a mystery.

As of today, archaeological theory is represented by numerous simultaneously developing approaches. Some of them feature the ways archaeological theory conceptualizes the past. Others are self-refl...

Recent research has shed invaluable light on the use of adhesives on ancient metalwork, and how these substances can be identified and analysed in curated a ...

New evidence for sealing in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic from Tol-e Sangi, Iran

Beads found in assemblages from the coast of East Africa have received significant archaeological attention. Glass beads were imported in large numbers to coastal sites from Indian Ocean trade netw...

Considerable attention has been given to the skeletal remains and personal ornaments from Mesolithic funerary contexts. Relatively less analytical attention, however, has been given to lithic objec...

Complexity has been both an integral but also heavily debated concept within anthropology and archaeology since the disciplines' professionalization in the ...