Archaeologists in northern Italy have uncovered more than 30 Iron Age houses dating back around 2,500 years, revealing the scale of a major Alpine settlement.

A 5,000-year-old arrow is among 48 prehistoric finds recovered as melting ice reveals older archaeology in Norway’s Jotunheimen mountains.

Archaeologists have discovered 16 new rock art panels at Sweden’s Tanum World Heritage Site, including a large surface filled with ships and human figures.

Scientific Reports - Isotope analysis reveals mobility of the earliest cattle herds in northern Europe

Archaeologists at Corent uncovered a massive Gallic mint in France that may be the largest known coin-production workshop in the ancient world.

One grape variety still grown in Spanish vineyards, hebén, has never gone out of cultivation for at least the last 1,100 years, according to the new study. That takes its lineage back to roughly the…

Archaeologists uncovered a giant 6,000-year-old kiln whose exceptional size points to intensified and increasingly specialized pottery production in prehistoric Europe.

A 141-coin Roman gold hoard found in Luxembourg led to years of excavation and revealed an unusual group of solidi minted in ancient Anatolia.

Hagbard’s Gallows in context: dating a Bronze Age monument in south-western Sweden

Newly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged

How modern colonialism impacted socio-economic growth before and after independence is the subject of an extensive literature. Employing ideas from neoclassi...

Archaeologists in Germany are studying a 2,400-year-old Celtic timber-and-stone structure that may have controlled access between the Main River and an Iron Age settlement.

A radar study claiming hidden structures inside the Great Pyramid has been retracted, but independently confirmed voids and corridors remain scientifically documented.

Archaeologists at Çayönü Tepesi in Türkiye have uncovered a 9,000-year-old mining workshop containing malachite, copper beads, worked materials and a stone-paved production area.

A study of 143 children and young adults from the Netherlands reveals how child labour and heavy physical work may have left lasting marks

The arrival of the Neolithic way of life in Europe is associated with the migration of Anatolian farmers and their admixture with local hunter-gatherers. In the Paris Basin (Northern France), the Mid...

Archaeologists found eight infant skeletons beside Çatalhöyük’s unusual “House of the Dead,” revealing new clues about the settlement’s final

Scientific Reports - Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments by Bronze Age newcomers in Southwestern Britain

Thirty new genomes from southwestern Britain: Bronze Age newcomers burying their dead in thousand-year-old Neolithic tombs — and why we stil...

New research led by University College Dublin has rewritten a key chapter in Irish prehistory, revealing that bones long thought to mark the beginning of farming in Ireland belong to bear and wild boa...

The discovery ‘removes one of the most significant pieces of evidence for when agriculture developed in Ireland or Britain’.

Rounded With a Sleep: The Transitional Role of Grave Goods in the Archaeology of Ritual and Emotion

New strontium isotope research shows the shackled men in ancient Athens' Phaleron mass grave were locals, not foreign invaders, reshaping

Analyses of ancient DNA from hunter-gatherers near Lake Baikal in southeast Siberia around 5,500 years ago indicate that highly virulent Yersinia pestis emerged earlier than previously estimated, far&...

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

A new analysis of skeletons recovered from an ancient mass burial has revealed a surprising number of groin injuries.

A 2,100-year-old wooden throwing weapon found in Iron Age Gaul resembles a boomerang and may reveal an unexpected European hunting tradition.

Archaeologists in central Türkiye have uncovered a 3,800-year-old storage and trade center with 16 massive jars dating to the Assyrian Trade

Monumental roads were constructed during the ninth to thirteenth centuries by the regional society centred on Chaco Canyon in the US Southwest. Here, the authors present new lidar and field documentation of parallel roads at the Gasco Site, which sits within a ritual landscape south of Chaco Canyon. Their findings reveal that the Gasco Road is substantially longer than previously believed and forms alignments between natural springs and towards the winter solstice sunrise over Mount Taylor, a mountain sacred among contemporary Indigenous peoples. These findings highlight the agency of landscapes and skyscapes in structuring ritual practices in ancient societies worldwide.

Kinship practices underpin all traditional societies, forming the basis for socially sanctioned reproductive unions, residence patterns and the inheritance of rights and property[1][1],[2][2]. Althoug...

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN—DNA analysis of bones from more than 500 individual woolly mammoths suggests that Upper […]

Radiocarbon dating and scattered bones at Brading Roman Villa suggest a fourth-century massacre linked to Emperor Constantius II's brutal

Smallpox was a major driver of population collapse in the Americas after European contact, yet the genetic identity of the causal strains remains unknown. Here, we report the first ancient smallpox ge...