
Archaeology | Science News
6 days ago · Archaeology Neandertals mastered fire-making tools 400,000 years ago Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an …
Archaeology’s top discoveries of 2024 include preserved brains and a ...
Dec 17, 2024 · Archaeology’s top discoveries of 2024 include preserved brains and a lost city Preserved brains, arthritis in ancient Egypt and other finds made headlines
Satellites are transforming how archaeologists study the past
Aug 4, 2019 · In ‘Archaeology from Space,’ Sarah Parcak takes readers on a lively tour of the past, and archaeology of the 21st century.
7 stone tools might rewrite the timeline of hominid migration in …
Aug 6, 2025 · 7 stone tools might rewrite the timeline of hominid migration in Indonesia Excavated implements suggest a Homo species arrived on Sulawesi over 1 million years ago
Ancient ‘megasites’ may reshape the history of the first cities
Feb 19, 2020 · At least two ancient paths to urban development existed, some archaeologists argue.
Anthropology | Science News
Jan 29, 2026 · Anthropology Big Neandertal noses weren’t made for cold Tiny cameras threaded inside a Neandertal skull provide evidence that their big noses were not an adaptation to cold climates.
Ancient Site Holds Cannibalism Clues - Science News
Jun 25, 2003 · An 800-year-old Anasazi site in Colorado yields contested evidence of cannibalism.
How we might finally find black holes from the cosmic dawn
Jan 13, 2025 · After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.
Ancient humans used the moon as a calendar in the sky
Jul 9, 2019 · Whether the moon was a timekeeper for early humans, as first argued during the Apollo missions, is still up for debate.
A tour of ‘Four Lost Cities’ reveals modern ties to ancient people
Mar 11, 2021 · In the book 'Four Lost Cities,' author Annalee Newitz uses cities of the past to show what might happen to cities in the future.