Archaeology Archive

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A well-preserved Palaeolithic site in northern China reveals a new and previously unidentified set of cultural innovations. When did populations of Homo sapiens

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Mummification of the dead probably was more common in prehistory than previously known. This discovery was made at the hunter-gatherer burial sites in

Jan  Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists are attempting to find out why so many 4,000-year-old Native American shell ring villages were suddenly abandoned. While scholars have proposed socio-ecological

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The riddle to solve the purpose of Stonehenge continues. It had long been thought that the famous site of Stonehenge served as an

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists has discovered the existence of a long-forgotten continent they have dubbed Balkanatolia, which today covers the present-day Balkans

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient Venus Of Willendorf figurine has intrigued scientists for many years. Carved some 30,000 years ago, the figurine, dated to the Upper

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers from the University of Oxford's Big Data Institute have taken a major step towards mapping the entirety of genetic relationships among humans:

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, commonly referred to as King Tut, had several cosmic jewels placed in his tomb when he died, being only

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com  - A site, Horvat Qeiyafa in the Valley of Elah, which is linked to one of the most famous biblical stories - the story

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Mesopotamia and the Indus civilization were both urban civilizations with large, densely populated and planned cities, 6000–1990 BCE. A new thesis in archaeology points

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study examining the chemical makeup of iron artifacts from the Viking age aims to uncover new insights into where they came

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The long-held consensus that the more populated and "civilized" a society, the more complex their communication may be more nuanced than previously thought.

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Siberian Valley of the Kings, on the Southern Siberian Steppe of the Russian Federation, is of great significance to archaeologists, who have

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study has confirmed saltwater drowning as the cause of death for a Neolithic man whose remains were found in a mass

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study reveals how archeologists can determine when a pot was used by Romans as a portable toilet, known as a chamber