Remains of tiny Roman pet dog found at villa in Oxfordshire The remains of a tiny Roman dog have been discovered at a popular walking spot. An archaeological dig at Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire has uncovered the 1,800-year-old remains of…
300,000-year-old double-pointed stick among oldest record of human-made wooden tools A finely crafted hunting weapon produced by an ancient hominid species sheds new light on the surprising woodworking abilities of our extinct ancestors. Analyzing the killing tool using a series…
Possible Restraint Of Elite Roman Man Buried With Sword Discovered In an isolated field near a Roman villa in Wales, archaeologists have discovered the skeleton of a man buried facedown. Adorned with a silver pin and a sword, he may…
Unveiling the Enigma: Reconstructing the Appearance of Our Last Common Ancestor with Apes The closest living relatives of humans are the apes such as chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and gibbons. We all had the same common ancestor that lived during the…
New evidence of plant food processing in Italy during Neanderthal-to-Homo sapiens period Long before the invention of agriculture, humans already knew how to process cereals and other wild plants into a flour suitable for food—and now there’s new evidence they…
Ancient genomes show that the farming lifestyle in northwestern Africa was ignited by oversea-migrants from Iberia 7,400 years ago A genomic analysis of ancient human remains from Morocco in northwest Africa revealed that food production was introduced by Neolithic European…
Newly discovered stone tools drag dawn of Greek archaeology back by a quarter-million years Deep in an open coal mine in southern Greece, researchers have discovered the antiquities-rich country’s oldest archaeological site, which dates to 700,000 years ago and is…
Unlocking Human Ancestry: Surprising Insights from the Broken Hill Skull and Homo Heidelbergensis The evolution of our species is a fascinating and complicated subject. Scientists often discuss our long-gone relatives, the Neanderthals, and some studies attempt to unravel the truth…
700,000-Year-Old human Skull Found In Greece Completely Shatters ‘Out Of Africa Theory’ Nature has always been a random architect. Entering Petralona Cave, which was formed in the limestone of Katsika Hill about a million years ago, makes this very clear.…
7,000-Year-Old Skeleton in Excellent Condition Found in Poland May Have Belonged to a Neolithic Farmer Archaeologists in Poland have discovered the full skeleton of a person who lived around 7,000 years ago near what is now Kraków. The Neolithic skeleton,…