Archaeologists have undertaken pioneering scans of the highest prehistoric paintings of animals in Europe. Archaeologists at the University of York have undertaken pioneering scans of the highest ...

For thousands of years, prehistoric hunters across western North America relied on the atlatl, a powerful dart-throwing device, to take down their prey. However, a recent comprehensive study reveals ...

Beats finding a seashell.

Archaeologists have uncovered an Iron Age cemetery around an earlier prehistoric burial mound in Germany. The remains were discovered close to the River Weser in the Minden-Lübbecke district of North ...

Tensions, pluralities, and engendering archaeology : an introduction to women and prehistory / Margaret W. Conkey and Joan M. Gero -- Gender theory and the archaeological record : why is there no ...

An archaeological survey has identified traces of hundreds of previously unknown monuments—including five "incredibly rare" prehistoric structures that may have once marked "routes for the dead" into ...

One look at the bulging buttocks of the squat female figurine and British Archaeologist James Mellaart recognized a Stone Age fertility symbol; the dig he was starting on a plain in southern Turkey ...

The evidence shows that the ‘Ubeidiya site is at least one million nine hundred thousand years old. This finding represents a ...

For the past year and a half, with scant public attention, squads of archaeologists digging at the Miami River site of a planned Related Group residential tower complex have unearthed remarkable finds ...

A 2,800-year-old mass grave in Serbia reveals a chilling pattern: women and children deliberately targeted, most unrelated to one another, and buried in a ritualized ceremony.

Following the recent inscription of the Faya Palaeolandscape on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the Government of Sharjah, ...

Archaeologists at the University of York have undertaken pioneering scans of the highest prehistoric paintings of animals in Europe. Studying the rock paintings of Abri Faravel, a rock shelter in the ...