Hundreds of mammoth bones were found at the Kostenki 11 site in Russia. Image: A. J. E. Pryor et al., 2020/Antiquity Scientists have found structures made from mammoth bones before, but the one found ...

What archaeological discoveries are considered newsworthy by U.S. media outlets and audiences? A new analysis of "pop-science" reporting reveals topical and regional disparities, including an apparent ...

Archaeology, the study of human history through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts, often unearths enigmatic discoveries that challenge our understanding of the past. These ...

In 2009, Terry Herbert, an unemployed metal detectorist in Staffordshire, England, swept his detector over a freshly plowed field and received a signal. What he unearthed over the following days would ...

The discovery of a 41,000-year-old cord fragment in France suggests Neanderthals invented string. Prior to this discovery, the oldest example of cord technology came from Israel and dated to 19,000 ...