Dr. Marta Chmiel-Chrzanowska and her colleagues conducted a multidisciplinary analysis of the only known preserved wooden coffin from the Roman Iron Age, the Princess of Bagicz. The study, published ...

As sea level rise pushes saltwater farther into the Florida Keys, it is not only roads and neighborhoods that are at risk; it is also the record of the region's earliest human history. For University ...

“The ancient DNA came to our rescue to secure the specimens’ true identity,” wrote Wooller and his colleagues. It also opened ...

More than a century after its discovery, Scandinavia’s oldest plank boat is finally giving up new secrets. By analyzing ...

What: Scientists have revived microscopic worms frozen in Siberian permafrost for roughly 46,000 years, revealing how life ...

Ancient footprints challenge the timeline of human arrival in North America, suggesting people were here much earlier than once believed.

In 1958, an amateur archaeologist unearthed an array of fiber, wood, hide, and more from Cougar Mountain Cave, Oregon. The ...

This means that early inhabitants of North America had advanced seamstress skills long before the construction of the Egyptian pyramids between 1,700 and 2,700 BC, ...

Ancient footprints challenge the timeline of human arrival in North America, suggesting people were here much earlier than once believed.

Dendrochronology uses tree growth rings to establish precise calendar dates for wooden objects and structures. Seasonal climate variations create distinct ring patterns that can be matched across ...

A new study refines radiocarbon dating of marine remains and significantly improves the precision with which the human past ...

Radiocarbon dating was invented 70 years ago with a little help from the University of Arizona, and the scientific breakthrough just keeps improving with age. A worldwide working group of researchers, ...