Paleontologists at the University of Kansas have identified a new species of ancient mammal that lived about 60 million years ...

Wet cooking and pit steaming allowed for high extraction rates without damaging the teeth, also cooking the meat to make it ...

A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

It used to be on display at the Henan Museum, in Zhengzhou, for over 50 years. "The pot is the 'cultural ambassador' of the Dahecun," Hu says. "Its return completes the historical narrative of the ...

Prehistoric people used a culinary method, similar to slow cooking today, to carefully extract animal teeth to use in ...

A pioneering study in experimental archaeology has revealed the techniques used by prehistoric communities in north-eastern ...

Twenty-three of the canoes were found in Lake Phelps in eastern North Carolina, with the oldest being “carbon dated to 2430 ...

Author of Expanded Reprinting of Squier & Davis Book also Explains Serpent Mound Festival Chillicothe & Southern Ohio Preshistory — Get a bird’s-eye-view of Adena and Hopewell earthworks in southern ...

The question is not only how people survived there, but why, with potentially important answers for understanding ancient ...

For years, California has touted itself as America’s green energy champion. Launching initiatives to fund renewable energy ...

This paper details a cultural algorithm (CA) system designed to assist archaeological expedition teams in the task of finding historic artifacts. In our system, the goals that the agents are trying to ...

From ancient villages to mysterious ruins, North America’s earliest inhabitants left behind fascinating clues about their ...