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 ...

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

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

Scientists have mapped the genome of the Greenland shark, which could offer clues to the animal’s extreme longevity.

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

The new study also indicates the Polynesian people who settled Rapa Nui mixed with indigenous South Americans centuries ...

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

Learn more here. Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a scientific method that can accurately determine the age of organic materials as old as approximately 60,000 years. First developed in the ...

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

A study by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the University of Murcia (UM) challenges the theory that warrior ...

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