A New Study Suggests the Cult of Sabazios Reached a Rural Roman Villa in Spain, While a Second Traces 82 Looted Copper Snakes Back to Early Iron Age Oman

A 14th-century woman lost her nose, most likely as punishment for a crime, yet with medical care she survived for years afterwards.

Field notes, finds, and long reads on archaeology — served warm.

The government plans to cut university subsidy for teaching archaeology by 50%, yet it’s never been more relevant to society.

Field notes, finds, and long reads on archaeology — served warm.

New study finds a hoard of copycat copper ingots in Malawi was cast from metal mined over 800 km away

New high-resolution laser scanning at Kition Kathari, Cyprus, reveals 23 previously unrecorded ship graffiti and indicates the carvings accumulated continuously from Late Cypriot IIIA into the Cypro-G...

Study Suggests a Pre-Hispanic Burial Cave on Gran Canaria Was Repurposed From an Earlier Grain Store

Archaeological excavation at the Inka provincial centre of Tambo Viejo, in Peru's Acari valley, has recovered coca leaves in direct association with llama and guinea pig sacrifices dated to c. AD 1450...

Archaeological excavation at the Inka provincial centre of Tambo Viejo, in Peru's Acari valley, has recovered coca leaves in direct association with llama and guinea pig sacrifices dated to c. AD 1450...

Study Suggests a Pre-Hispanic Burial Cave on Gran Canaria Was Repurposed From an Earlier Grain Store

New study reassesses two famous claims, finding the San "dinosaur" was a personified veld fire and the "tusked" Dicynodont-Inspired animal has no tusks

Evidence of betel nut sucking in Late Pleistocene Sulawesi pushes the earliest known habitual use of a plant drug back from the Neolithic to 25–16,000 years ago

Evidence of betel nut sucking in Late Pleistocene Sulawesi pushes the earliest known habitual use of a plant drug back from the Neolithic to 25–16,000 years ago

New high-resolution laser scanning at Kition Kathari, Cyprus, reveals 23 previously unrecorded ship graffiti and indicates the carvings accumulated continuously from Late Cypriot IIIA into the Cypro-G...

New study reassesses two famous claims, finding the San "dinosaur" was a personified veld fire and the "tusked" Dicynodont-Inspired animal has no tusks

Field notes, finds, and long reads on archaeology — served warm.

New luminescence dating of sinkhole sediments suggests The Mammoth Site's Columbian mammoths died around 232,000–160,000 years ago, far earlier than radiocarbon indicated

New study finds the thylacine’s skull was a mosaic of traits with no analogue among living mammalian carnivores

New study reveals a teenage girl buried with a sickle across her throat and a padlock locked around her big toe

New study reveals a teenage girl buried with a sickle across her throat and a padlock locked around her big toe

New study identifies twelve resin-mounted wallaby incisors in a Cape York rockshelter, the first ornaments of their kind found outside a burial in northeast Australia

New study traces copper and tin from three Botswanan Iron Age sites, revealing a trade network that ran hundreds of kilometres across southern Africa's interior

New study traces copper and tin from three Botswanan Iron Age sites, revealing a trade network that ran hundreds of kilometres across southern Africa's interior

New study identifies twelve resin-mounted wallaby incisors in a Cape York rockshelter, the first ornaments of their kind found outside a burial in northeast Australia

Study finds Aboriginal artists in Arnhem Land painted increasingly massive rainbow serpents, whales, and giants after European contact as a way of reasserting cultural authority amid colonial upheaval...

New study finds that Dutch children as young as four show skeletal signs of spinal degeneration typically seen in adults, with dairy farming leaving the most severe damage

Study finds Aboriginal artists in Arnhem Land painted increasingly massive rainbow serpents, whales, and giants after European contact as a way of reasserting cultural authority amid colonial upheaval...

New study finds that Dutch children as young as four show skeletal signs of spinal degeneration typically seen in adults, with dairy farming leaving the most severe damage

A follow-up on the study that dethroned Monte Verde, and the rebuttals that followed

A follow-up on the study that dethroned Monte Verde, and the rebuttals that followed

Small things from the Keeper's desk — too short for a story, too good to keep quiet.

Small things from the Keeper's desk — too short for a story, too good to keep quiet.

Eleven newly identified arrowheads from Tepecik-Çiftlik expand the Central Anatolian corpus to 54, yet no two incised designs are alike

Eleven newly identified arrowheads from Tepecik-Çiftlik expand the Central Anatolian corpus to 54, yet no two incised designs are alike

A modified maxillary canine from the Late Neolithic site of Jablanica offers rare evidence of human remains used as personal ornaments in the Vinča culture

Field notes, finds, and long reads on archaeology — served warm.

Researchers CT-Scanned the Skulls of 57 Columbiform Birds, Including the Dodo and Solitaire

Field notes, finds, and long reads on archaeology — served warm.

Microscopic and CT analysis of 10,136 faunal remains uncovers the first evidence of Neanderthal bone-working in Romania

A fossil first found in 1948 and left exposed for decades is revealed to be a new giant species at the base of the plagiosaurid family tree

Radiocarbon dating pushes the age of giant rock scallop beads back 8,500 years and extends their known range far beyond the California…