10,500-Year-Old Wooden Remains Found 20 Meters Beneath a German Lake
Deep beneath a lake in northern Germany, archaeologists have found remarkably preserved wooden remains dating back some 10,500 years. The discovery could provide rare evidence…
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13,000-Year-Old Spear Points Reveal How Ice Age Hunters Learned an Unfamiliar Land
At the end of the last Ice Age, people moving through the Tennessee River Valley faced a challenge that went far beyond finding food. They…
25 Stone Turtle Figurines Found in a Turkish Cave May Reveal a 16,500-Year-Old Ritual World
Deep inside a prehistoric cave in northwestern Türkiye, archaeologists have uncovered an unusual collection of about 25 stone turtle figurines, some deliberately pushed into the…
Ancient DNA Reveals Ice Age Humans Disproportionately Targeted Female Woolly Mammoths
Ancient DNA recovered from more than 500 woolly mammoths has revealed an unexpected pattern in the relationship between Ice Age people and one of the…
7,000-Year-Old Fish Traps Reveal Hunter-Gatherers Stocked Norway’s Mountain Lakes
Wooden fish traps discovered in a mountain lake in southern Norway have revealed that Mesolithic hunter-gatherers deliberately introduced brown trout into waters the fish could…
Ancient Human DNA Found on Cave Walls for the First Time
A cave wall is not usually treated like a genetic archive. In Spain and Portugal, however, researchers have recovered ancient human DNA from the surface…
Child Graves Near Lake Baikal Reveal Plague’s Deadly Reach 5,500 Years Ago
A prehistoric Lake Baikal plague outbreak is no longer just a theory drawn from scattered graves. Ancient DNA from children buried near the Angara River…
10,500-Year-Old Cremation Burial in Germany Found with Aurochs Skull on Ritual Post
While investigating the prehistoric wetlands of Duvensee Moor in Schleswig-Holstein, archaeologists uncovered an aurochs skull mounted on a wooden post, positioned only a few meters…
The Oldest Story Painted in the Americas? Rock Art in Texas and Mexico Carried a Single Message for 4,000 Years
Deep inside the limestone canyons that cut across the borderlands of Texas and northern Mexico, ancient murals stretch across cliff walls in sweeping tapestries of…