The Department of Housing, Heritage and Local Government’s National Monuments Service, in partnership with the Spanish Ministry of Culture, has launched a new publication called “The Letter from ...

Humans evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to be the ultimate flexible eaters—chasing carbohydrates and fats from plant and animal sources alike. A new study in the Journal of Archaeological ...

A new study maps dozens of megalithic tombs in Spain, revealing burial mounds and a fortified Copper Age settlement.

A Great Wall excavation in China uncovers the largest known cannon in the Jiankou section and evidence of early cultural ...

A 5,500-year-old wildcat discovered in County Clare reveals surprising insights into Ireland’s prehistoric wildlife and ...

Square-shaped skull discovered at Balcón de Montezuma archaeological site in Tamaulipas, Mexico, showing unique cranial modification technique. ( Technical Archive of the Physical Anthropology Section ...

A groundbreaking DNA study, published this week, suggests that the first humans to reach the ancient landmass called Sahul – ...

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

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 ...

Check out this list of some of the best dinosaur mods in Minecraft that can introduce a bunch of prehistoric animals in the ...

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

Archaeologists have uncovered an 8,500-year-old obsidian mirror at Canhasan in central Turkey, one of the oldest settlements ...