A Bronze Age skull find in Lake Constance. (Image: Tobias Pflederer, Bavarian Society for Underwater Archeology e.V.)
Was there a hitherto unknown settlement on the...
"Closing schools!": Newspaper article in The Morning of October 7, 1918 (Image: Austrian National Library Vienna, ANNO | www.anno.onb.ac.at)
Measures such as social distancing, school...
Koprolite (fecal stones) from a locality in China. (Image: Jada Ko, courtesy of the Anhui Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology)
Archaeological treasures of...
Homo heidelbergensis hunting with a throwing stick. (Image: Benoit Clarys)
Hand axes and other stone tools from our ancestors are often found in archaeological excavations....
The power center of the Calusa was an impressive building on an artificial elevation, which is said to have accommodated 2000 people. (Image: Merald...
The German Atlantic Expedition began in 1925 with the research ship "Meteor". (Image: DSM)
The German Atlantic Expedition in the 1920s was a milestone in...
The approximately 6.2 mm long and 0.5 mm wide cord fragment in a close-up. (Image: C2RMF)
Ropes and ropes were already integral parts of Neanderthal...
The flood savannah in the lowlands of Bolivia is littered with small forest islands. (Image: Umberto Lombardo)
Researchers report that thousands of forest islands in...
Homo-erectus skull from Drimolen. (Image: Therese van Wyk / University of Johannesburg)
Where and when our ancestor Homo erectus developed has so far been controversial....
The results are based on the reconstruction of fossil skulls from Australopithecus afarensis. (Image: Philipp Gunz, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.de)
News from "Lucy" and Co:...
The world's oldest daily newspaper, which still exists today, has been published since 1703: Viennaerian diarium - today's Wiener Zeitung. Now you can do...
Portrait of Matilda McCrear (Image: Newcastle University / Crear Family)
In 1860 the last slave ship landed in the United States. On board was Matilda...
This rock drawing puzzles archaeologists. (Image: Dr. Mohammad Naserifard)
A strange shaped body with six limbs - what is that supposed to represent? Archaeologists have...
There may be discrepancies in radiocarbon dating of Egyptian mummies. (Image: webking / iStock)
The age determination of archaeological finds using radiocarbon dating could be...