Poverty Point, a 3,500-year-old earthen mound, is a well-researched UNESCO World Heritage Site, but a pair of studies ...

Humans evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to be the ultimate flexible eaters—chasing carbohydrates and fats from ...

The waters of Lake Issyk-Kul have hidden an important Silk Road city ever since an earthquake shifted the region’s landscape.

Ultimately, these 573 fortresses redefine what we know about northern China’s prehistory. Long before the first emperors unified the land, people were already experimenting with civilization, laying ...

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

Archaeologists studied Semiyarka, dubbed The City of Seven Ravines, a settlement from 1600 BC that may have been a powerhouse ...

Last month, divers off the coast of South Korea retrieved 87 bowls and cups from the dark, swirling waters. The objects were ...

At the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, the archaeology department has over 1 million artifacts from all over the ...

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one ...

Archaeologists excavating at Canhasan in central Turkey have unearthed an extraordinarily rare 8,500-year-old obsidian mirror. The discovery represents one of only 56 such mirrors ever found across ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...