THE aims of prehistoric archæology are, broadly, to give an account of the nature and activities of man where no written history is yet available, defined both in time and space and in character. The ...
An animal bone fragment full of human-made pits hints at how prehistoric people in Western Europe may have crafted clothing. The nearly 40,000-year-old artifact probably served as a punch board for ...
A team at the University of Bristol has developed a new method of dating pottery which is allowing archaeologists to date prehistoric finds from across the world with remarkable accuracy. The exciting ...
Researchers at the University of Bern have for the first time been able to pin down a prehistoric settlement of early farmers in northern Greece dating back more than 7,000 years to the year. For this ...
A new study from the Department of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University found that the extinction of large prey, upon which human nutrition had been based, compelled prehistoric humans to develop ...
A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...
Fire and smoke may be considered a significant danger now, but in the early days, it is one of the earliest technologies which humans discovered as a way to shine a light on dark surroundings, cook ...
No. 1 of the Handbook Series produced by the South African Archæological Society is entitled “Method in Prehistory” and is by A. J. H. Goodwin (Cape Town. 12s. 6d.) ; it is an extremely useful little ...
The graduate program in archaeology is designed to prepare students to become high quality archaeologists through a combination of coursework and independent research. The overarching themes of the ...
An archaeological survey has identified traces of hundreds of previously unknown monuments—including five "incredibly rare" prehistoric structures that may have once marked "routes for the dead" into ...
WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that pits that may have been dug by prehistoric hunters as early as some 10,000 years ago have been discovered near Stonehenge by researchers from the University of ...
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