Some civilizations in inland China underwent dramatic changes and population drops 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers are ...

New archaeological evidence challenges the popular image of Paleolithic humans as predominantly meat-eaters. If you imagine early humans living on big game alone, new research says that picture is ...

Evidence suggests that China's "cradle of civilization" experienced marked climate disasters and social upheavals during the mid-late Holocene (around 3,000 years ago). However, the direct causes and ...

A new collagen fingerprinting tool can help scientists identify species from archaeological bone fragments. Pacific islanders of the late Stone Age, also known as the Neolithic period, were master ...

Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of what may be the world’s first surgery: a Viking-age human skull with a portion removed. The remains, belonging to a man between 17 and 24 years old, feature ...

The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw made an astonishing ...

(CNN) — A field in eastern England has revealed evidence of the earliest known instance of humans creating and controlling fire, a significant find that archaeologists say illuminates a dramatic ...

Researchers in Turkey say they have unearthed archaeological evidence that the Romans used human feces in medical treatments. Although Roman texts described the practice, this is the first time that ...

Archaeologists in Scotland have unearthed evidence of a “mysterious mass burial” dating back to the Bronze Age, which tells of a “horrible event.” Archaeologists found a mass Bronze Age burial near a ...