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  1. Archaeology | Science News

    2 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 …

  2. Archaeology’s top discoveries of 2024 include preserved brains …

    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

  3. Rethinking archaeology and place - Science News

    Nov 2, 2024 · Pompeii. Machu Picchu. Stonehenge. Angkor Wat. The Great Pyramid of Giza. Those of us who grew up in Western cultures tend to think of archaeology as the study of a …

  4. A race to save Indigenous trails may change the face of archaeology

    Oct 29, 2024 · As construction of a pipeline nears, an effort to preserve an Indigenous trail in Canada tests whether heritage management can keep up with advances in archaeology.

  5. This ancient Siberian ice mummy had a talented tattooist

    Aug 7, 2025 · Researchers reconstructed a roughly 2,000-year-old woman’s tattoos, from prowling tigers to a fantastical griffinlike creature.

  6. British tin might have fueled the rise of some Bronze Age …

    May 6, 2025 · Chemical evidence of tin from coastal British sites reaching Bronze Age Mediterranean societies highlights a supply chain dispute.

  7. 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

  8. Lidar reveals the oldest and biggest Maya structure yet found

    Jun 3, 2020 · Lidar reveals the oldest and biggest Maya structure yet found Excavations and airborne mapping unveil a society that from its beginnings built big

  9. Stone Age hunter-gatherers may have been surprisingly skilled …

    Apr 9, 2025 · New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

  10. A Pueblo tribe recruited scientists to reclaim its ancient American …

    Apr 30, 2025 · A Pueblo tribe recruited scientists to reclaim its ancient American history Picuris Pueblo oral histories talk of long-ago ties to Chaco Canyon. DNA now backs that up