Iron Age amber beads from the Baltic Sea found in Syria. Credit: M. N. Mortensen et al. / National Museum of Denmark A recent analysis of beads discovered in the ancient city of Hama, Syria, has ...

The bead's slight red color might be from the surrounding reddish iron oxide-rich soil ... columbi), the burned remains of ice-age bison (Bison antiquus), bone needles and the remains of several ...

A team of experts has found a bone ... such as beads indicates “increasing human cultural and social complexity,” say the authors. The practice dates back to the Middle Stone Age of Africa.

and the results are a confirmation of the relative dating of the Iron Age from 1050 to 820 BC. Elsewhere in his remarks, the archaeologist said that the findings of this cemetery include ornamental ...

OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that a toe bone of a golden eagle with a hole in it has been recovered from an Iron Age cremation burial of a young child in southeastern England.