4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (284+ words) Buried inside more than 10,000 ordinary-looking bone fragments from a cave in Romania was something archaeologists had been searching for without knowing it. Thousands of unremarkable bone scraps from a Romanian cave shelter have turned out to be something far more…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (506+ words) Some discoveries are made in laboratories. These ancient tools were found by a kid on vacation who noticed what others almost missed. A boy who once dug curious black stones out of the mud during a family vacation has grown…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (548+ words) Long before our species existed, someone in Africa built a wooden structure that should have rotted away millennia ago. How did it survive? At Kalambo Falls in Zambia, ancient humans shaped and fitted together large pieces of wood to build…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (251+ words) For years, scientists debated whether this ancient mammoth-bone site was a home, a tomb, or something else entirely. A groundbreaking new dating technique just settled the question, and the answer is more surprising than anyone expected. During these past few…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (644+ words) For more than 10,000 years, the high Pyrenees have been far from the untouched wilderness they appear to be. A new archaeological study is uncovering a hidden human story buried across remote mountain landscapes. Archaeologists have found evidence that people have…...