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Lost Civilization Under Persian Gulf?
December 8, 2010 — A once fertile landmass now submerged beneath the Persian Gulf may have been home to some of the earliest human populations outside Africa, according to a new ... > full story -
Warring Greeks Found Peace in Ancient Egypt: Researcher Uncovers Origins of Greek Trade City in Egypt's Nile Delta Region
December 6, 2010 — Naukrtis, a Greek trade city in Egypt's Nile Delta region, has long fascinated archaeologists and historians. Now, archaeologists have found that instead of settling in Naukrtis of their own free ... > full story -
New Technology Gives on-Site Assessments in Archaeology
November 17, 2010 — The ability to tell the difference between crystals that formed naturally and those formed by human activity can be important to archaeologists in the field. This can be a crucial bit of information ... > full story -
Origin of Skillful Stone-Tool-Sharpening Method Pushed Back More Than 50,000 Years
October 28, 2010 — A highly skillful and delicate method of sharpening and retouching stone artifacts by prehistoric people appears to have been developed at least 75,000 years ago, more than 50,000 years earlier than ... > full story -
Paradise Lost -- And Found: Researchers Unearth Ancient Water Secrets at Royal Garden Dig
October 28, 2010 — Researchers in Israel have uncovered an ancient royal garden at the site of Ramat Rachel near Jerusalem, and are leading the first full-scale excavation of this type of archaeological site anywhere ... > full story -
Archaeological Sites Threatened by Rising Seas: Scientists Issue Call to Action
October 27, 2010 — Should global warming cause sea levels to rise as predicted in coming decades, thousands of archaeological sites in coastal areas around the world will be lost to erosion. With no hope of saving all ... > full story -
Did Neanderthals Make Jewellery After All?
October 26, 2010 — The theory that later Neanderthals might have been sufficiently advanced to fashion jewelery and tools similar to those of incoming modern humans has suffered a setback. A new radiocarbon dating ... > full story -
Pre-Columbian Societies in Amazon May Have Been Much Larger and More Advanced Than Thought
October 18, 2010 — The pre-Columbian Indian societies that once lived in the Amazon rainforests may have been much larger and more advanced than ... > full story -
Neanderthals Had Feelings Too, Say Researchers
October 5, 2010 — New research by archaeologists in the UK suggests that Neanderthals belied their primitive reputation and had a deep seated sense of ... > full story -
No Evidence for Clovis Comet Catastrophe, Archaeologists Say
September 29, 2010 — New research challenges the controversial theory that an ancient comet impact devastated the Clovis people, one of the earliest known cultures to inhabit North ... > full story -
Taking a New Look at Old Digs: Trampling Animals May Alter Stone Age Sites
September 23, 2010 — Stone Age tools discovered embedded in the ground could mislead archaeologists about a Prehistoric site's age. A new study on animal trampling found that water buffalo and goats significantly ... > full story -
City Living Helped Humans Evolve Immunity to Tuberculosis and Leprosy, New Research Suggests
September 23, 2010 — New research has found that a genetic variant which reduces the chance of contracting diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy is more prevalent in populations with long histories of urban ... > full story
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