21+ hour, 4+ min ago  (348+ words) Early hunter-gatherers in the Americas likely targeted large prey such as mammoths instead of smaller animals Popular Archeology American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)The earliest human societies in the Americas likely hunted specific animals such as mammoths…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (91+ words) Researchers cannot currently distinguish the two archaeologically and thus cannot reliably show how many Clovis proboscidean sites represent hunting versus scavenging events," said Kent State's Metin I. Eren. The Smithsonian's Briana Pobiner, the University of Utah's James O'Connell, and the University…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (882+ words) Most people who think of archaeology picture workers gently removing dirt from artifacts at a dig site. Although excavation is a core method of archaeological research, the topic of modern archaeology encompasses much more than digging. Archaeologists today depend on…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (37+ words) Illustration of Clovis fluted stone point. Credit Michelle R. Bebber. Article Source: PNAS news release. Image, Top: Atlatl use illustration. Sebasti'o da Silva Vieira, CC BY 3. 0, Wikimedia Commons POPULAR ARCHAEOLOGY ON INSTAGRAM " 2026 Popular Archeology....

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (157+ words) The study of human origins in literature connects excavation records with narrative traditions. Archaeological findings shape how early societies are described in written form. These accounts reveal shifting interpretations of identity, memory, and cultural development across time over centuries observed....

2+ week, 9+ min ago  (508+ words) Bournemouth University'The identity of a centuries-old shipwreck discovered off the south coast of England, holding 400 gold coins has finally been identified as the Dutch trading ship "Dom van Keulen" which left Morocco for the Netherlands in the autumn of 1633. Independent…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (714+ words) Discovery at Tel 'Eton offers rare glimpse into religious change in the Kingdom of Judah during the First Temple period. According to Faust, the treatment of the stone may reflect broader religious changes that took place in Judah in the…...

3+ week, 23+ hour ago  (258+ words) New discoveries from a UCF-led excavation in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, near the city of Erbil, are reshaping what researchers know about how ancient cities lived, governed and fell. A Lost Archive Emerges" "Most of the tablets are administrative…...

4+ week, 2+ hour ago  (392+ words) Stonehenge's central Altar Stone is a six-tonne sandstone megalith now believed to have originated in northeast Scotland, around 700km from Salisbury Plain, underscoring the extraordinary scale of its journey. Researchers have now focused on what that journey may have looked like,…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (179+ words) Each leap in human communication'from vocal anatomy to writing to digital networks'followed the same pattern: faster, more complex, less individual. Many people are overwhelmed by the fast-paced evolution of mass communication in a world increasingly shaped by the internet and…...