World's Oldest Portable Wooden Tools Discovered in Greece, Dating Back 430,000 Years
The Marathousa 1 site in the Megalopolis basin, Greece, has yielded 430,000-year-old worked wood fragments -- the oldest portable wooden to…
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The Marathousa 1 site in the Megalopolis basin, Greece, has yielded 430,000-year-old worked wood fragments -- the oldest portable wooden to…
Read →While packing up in Lower Silesia, Polish archaeologists discovered a Neolithic tumulus by chance: inside, a chieftain buried c. 2900 BCE w…
Read →A palaeogenomics study of 1,237 ancient individuals shows that genetic variants associated with light pigmentation only reached high preval…
Read →A new genetic study reconstructs the repopulation of Britain after the last glacial maximum: two distinct waves separated by brutal cooling…
Read →A genetic study spanning 300 megalithic tombs shows that the populations who built these monuments almost entirely disappeared between 3,50…
Read →Valencian researchers have uncovered irrefutable evidence of cannibalism in a Spanish Neolithic cave dating to 5,000 to 4,500 BCE: human bo…
Read →Excavations in Burgos province have revealed an exceptional Neanderthal camp dating to 55,000 to 70,000 years ago: organised hearths, hunte…
Read →Excavations at ancient Gela in Sicily have uncovered a 5th-century BCE bone stylus, a rare witness to the practice of writing in the daily …
Read →Italian maritime archaeologists explored by ROV an exceptionally well-preserved Hellenistic wreck off the Calabrian coast, with an intact h…
Read →Agricultural work in the Plovdiv region has brought to light thirty gold and silver objects dated to the 2nd century BCE, including rhytons…
Read →Metal detectorists discovered in 2025 in west Norfolk an exceptionally preserved bronze carnyx, accompanied by a boar standard and five shi…
Read →Extensive excavations at Ringhill in County Down, Northern Ireland, reveal a settlement of more than 200 circular structures occupied betwe…
Read →Ongoing excavations on the heights of Mount Papoura in central Crete are revealing a large-scale circular settlement dated to around 3000 B…
Read →In the Austrian Alps, the Hallstatt salt mine generated one of Europe's first aristocratic civilisations. Between 1200 and 450 BCE, Hallsta…
Read →Between 5000 and 500 BCE, Neolithic communities built villages on the shores of alpine lakes. Preserved in mud for millennia, these sites o…
Read →At 3,177 meters altitude in Peru, Chavín de Huántar was between 900 and 200 BCE the greatest pilgrimage center of the Andes. Its acoustic g…
Read →A 9,000-year-old burial in Peru revealed a young woman interred with a complete hunting kit. This discovery and a meta-analysis of 429 indi…
Read →Triangles, dots, spirals: the 32 recurring abstract signs of Palaeolithic rock art reveal a symbolic system shared by humanity for over 40,…
Read →Between 500 BCE and 200 CE, the Nok culture produced terracotta sculptures in Nigeria with pierced triangular eyes that constitute the olde…
Read →Some 17,000 years ago, Magdalenian artists painted bison, reindeer, and mammoths in polychrome in a Dordogne fissure. The last cave of its …
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