15+ hour, 25+ min ago   (431+ words) “In the deep past, settlements were places where both the living and the dead coexisted and felt at home,” says Sabina Cveček, an archaeologist and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow at the Field Museum in Chicago. “One theory about why…...

15+ hour, 32+ min ago   (218+ words) Biological and archaeological analysis of human remains from a 2,700-year-old Italian necropolis reveals, through what the people ate, how they lived, how they moved, and how they organized their society. The study focused on the Novilara necropolis, one of the…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (577+ words) New modeling suggests that tens of thousands of languages were spoken between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago - and that their decline began well before European colonial expansion. Direct evidence for the number of languages is almost entirely absent before the appearance of…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (280+ words) Perfectly preserved ‘phytolith’ plant crystals reveal that indigenous Australians took grasses into cave for ritual burning since last Ice Age. Phytoliths and a standing stone The Old Ancestors were very selective as to which types of plants they brought into…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (689+ words) Digital archives have changed what archaeologists can access, compare, and verify. Here's what that shift actually looks like in practice and where the field is heading. Archaeology has always run on careful documentation. Field notes, excavation drawings, pottery records, skeletal…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (354+ words) Strong muscle attachments and healed fractures show that royal women could use the weapons they were buried with — but also that high status didn’t prevent hardship. Frontiers—For decades, scientists have disputed the meaning of the weapons found in the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1025+ words) Discoveries in a cave on the island of Malta have opened the eyes of scholars on what was possible for humans before the Neolithic in the Mediterranean. Malta, 2023 — It was a discovery that proved nothing less than astonishing. Well more…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (366+ words) A remarkable island country with a deep past. We arrived in late April, and every morning Noel came for us. An island that undersells itself The megalithic temple sanctuary of Ħaġar Qim. Nitramserolf, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons Dawn, our archaeologist…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1205+ words) The ancient city that foreshadowed Rome. All travelers to Rome – before going on to Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance, and thence to Venice and its streets of water:—the 21st century version of The Grand Tour—it would be wise…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (629+ words) Modern development on Malta has already led to irreversible cultural destruction. Can it be stopped before it gets worse? But behind the story of these priceless treasures is another story—one that speaks of endangerment, destruction and cultural loss. Popular…...