Radiocarbon dating can fail, but archeology can still save the day. This is the key message of the seminar that Elisabetta Boaretto, physicist of the Weizmann Institute in Israel, will give at SISSA ...

The final two chapters focus on recent changes in Irish food culture over the last six decades. Firstly, the growing ...

Researchers and local Indigenous people say a beautifully preserved metre-wide and 40-centimetres-high tree stump may be a ...

“Our research has found the elusive first links between fossil material that suggest dingoes have evolved locally from an ...

A researcher has found evidence that the treeless, rugged, grassland landscape of the Falkland Islands was home to a lush, diverse rainforest up to 30 million years ago.

What makes this finding so significant is that it confirms what some archaeologists and anthropologists have suspected for ...

New findings suggest alternative reasons for the rapid demographic changes in Iberia between the Copper and Bronze Ages.

Researchers unexpectedly found traces of cocaine in the mummified brain tissue of 17th-century people buried in a crypt in ...

New archaeological research has discovered for the first time clear links between fossils of the iconic Australian dingo, and dogs from East Asia and New Guinea.

Recent research has uncovered evidence of several extreme solar storms that struck Earth in the distant past, with ...

A new study led by researchers from the University of South Florida has changed the way we understand the history of human ...

In September 1859, the same year that Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," telegraph systems across Europe and North ...