Archeaology

An international team of scientists has unearthed 57 stone tools and butchered animal bones at Kalinga in the Cagayan Valley of northern Luzon, the largest and most northerly island in the Philippines. Archaic hominins. Image credit: Ninara / CC BY 2.0. Along with an almost complete skeleton of extinct Rhinoceros …

According to a study published in the journal PLoS ONE, a 35,000-year-old flint flake found at a Middle Paleolithic site in Crimea, Ukraine, was likely engraved symbolically by a skilled hand of a Neanderthal. The engraved flint flake from the Kiik-Koba site, Crimea, Ukraine; the arrow indicates the point of …

Some 7,000 years ago, inhabitants of a small settlement at the Early Neolithic waterlogged site of La Draga (Girona, Spain) dried non-edible fungi for use as tinder to light and transport fires. An artist’s impression of prehistoric humans in Europe. The La Draga site is located on the eastern shore …

A cache of rare coins from the period of the Jews’ Great Revolt against the Romans has been discovered at the Ophel archaeological site near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel. Some of the bronze coins found at the Ophel site near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel. Image credit: …

Analyses of numerous spear points with fluted edges found in northern Alaska and Yukon, and artifacts from further south in Canada, the Great Plains, and eastern United States, prove that the Ice Age peopling of the Americas was much more complex than previously believed. The findings, published in the Proceedings of …

A team of Canadian scientists from the University of Victoria and the Hakai Institute has found fossilized human footprints of at least three different sizes impressed into a 13,000-year-old paleosol beneath beach sands on Calvert Island, off the Pacific coast of Canada. Photograph of a human footprint (center) at the …

Two very unusual pieces of leather have been uncovered during the excavation of a pre-Hadrianic cavalry barrack (c. 100 CE) at the Vindolanda Roman fort in Northumberland, northern England. The Vindolanda boxing gloves (c. 100 CE), probably the only known surviving examples from the Roman period. Image credit: Vindolanda Trust. …

A team of researchers from the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archeology in China has unearthed a bronze kettle with liquor dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BC). 2,200-year-old liquor. Image credit: Li Yibo, Xinhua. The 2,200-year-old bronze kettle is a sacrificial vessel among 260 other items found in Qin …

An international team of researchers led by Université de Montréal’s Dr. Luc Doyon has found seven bone soft hammers at the early hominin Lingjing site in Xuchang county of Henan province, China. These 115,000-year-old tools represent the first instance of the use of bone as raw material to modify stone …

A 700-year-old bronze ring engraved with a portrait of St. Nicholas — the 4th century Orthodox Christian saint who inspired the iconography of Santa Claus — has been discovered by a gardener in northern Israel. The 700-year-old bronze ring depicts St. Nicholas. Image credit: Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority. “I …