23+ hour, 43+ min ago   (504+ words) A 70,000–100,000-year-old site in China’s Lower Yangtze region yielded 3,596 stone artifacts. Their size and manufacture point to a change in toolmaking, but not to a known species or a settled explanation. Stone tools in China’s Lower Yangtze region point to…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (569+ words) What does spolia mean? At Sardis, archaeologists found a late Roman wall built with pieces of an older temple, alongside other evidence of stones reused in streets and monuments. The post What Is Spolia? How Roman Sardis Reused Its Ancient…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (551+ words) Finding an ancient structure does not always mean that archaeologists should uncover all of it immediately. In some cases, the most responsible decision is to leave part of a site in the ground. Soil can protect fragile walls, organic material…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (673+ words) An ancient building does not come with a label on the door. When archaeologists uncover walls, they have to work out what people did inside them from the traces left behind. A hearth may suggest cooking, but it can also…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (691+ words) The discovery is the first clear evidence that medieval books and sustained reading were present on the island, rather than arriving only through later English administration. The fragments were identified by researchers studying the material history of Guernsey’s records. A…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (559+ words) Ancient Egyptian artists were working with a much wider range of materials than the usual picture of "paint and glue" suggests. A new analysis of 28 microscopic samples from 14 painted objects found evidence for glues made from several animals, along with…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (103+ words) Stone tools from a Saudi Arabian desert site resemble Neanderthal technology, offering evidence of a possible Neanderthal presence 60,000–50,000 years ago. Before your next upload Clean image metadata before you share. Remove EXIF, GPS and common AI metadata before you share....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (644+ words) Qurayyah Painted Ware carried repeatable designs across Bronze Age Arabia. New research suggests that its makers built recognition and demand around a distinctive style more than 3,000 years ago. The comparison does not mean Bronze Age traders had modern advertising departments....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (484+ words) An excavation in Uzbekistan is bringing archaeologists, materials scientists and environmental researchers together around a single ancient furnace. At Abu Muslim Qala, in the historic Khorezm region, a Purdue-led project has uncovered the remains of a settlement and a large…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (340+ words) At the Etruscan city of Kainua in northern Italy, archaeologists have found a deep well containing intact bronze objects, a distinctive plate and human remains. The location and the objects suggest that the well had a ritual role, although researchers…...