A discovery of a 6,300-year-old megalithic grave site in central Iberia recalibrates the history of funerary tradition. The ...

Archaeologists have excavated the remains of a dingo that was buried by ancestors of the Australian Aboriginal Barkindji ...

The dye used to color the robes was only worn by emperors and the wildly rich—so its use in the burials of two infants raised ...

For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.

Archaeologist still depend upon tools used for hundreds of years, but some are taking advantage of what technology offers. Things like ground penetrating radar, microscopes, even satellites. Learn ...

Introduction -- Science, art and archaeology -- Scientific study of archaeological materials during the Chinese Song Dynasty : a Shen Kua case study -- The role of science in western Chinese jade ...

What archaeological discoveries are considered newsworthy by U.S. media outlets and audiences? A new analysis of "pop-science" reporting reveals topical and regional disparities, including an apparent ...

Archaeological science integrates laboratory-based analyses, field-survey techniques and computational methods to recover, characterise and interpret traces of past human activity. Drawing on physics, ...

At a site in northeastern Uzbekistan, archaeologists have uncovered tiny stone points that appear to be the oldest known ...

Thirty scientists have penned scathing responses to a study claiming the 14,500-year-old Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile is much younger than thought.

The center opened to the public in April. Archaeologists at the living history village had to move millions of delicate, ...

Archaeological Science, often interchangeably termed archaeometry, represents an inherently interdisciplinary field that blends methods drawn from the physical, chemical, biological, and social ...