Researchers uncover Stone Age settlement submerged by rising sea levels in Denmark ~humanities.history Article 632 words 8 votes
A 100,000-year-old burial site in Israel is changing what we know about early humans ~humanities.history Article 1044 words, published Jul 24 2025 13 votes
We found French underwear in an ancient Sumerian city | Girsu Project | Curator's Corner S10 Ep4 ~humanities.history Video 19:31 12 votes
Scientists built a canoe using only prehistoric tools. Then they sailed the dangerous 140-mile route early humans traveled 30,000 years ago. ~humanities.history Article 32 votes
Stonehenge-like circle unearthed in Denmark – archaeologists suggest ‘woodhenge’ was built between 2600 and 1600BC on similar axis to English stone circle ~humanities.history Article 428 words 14 votes
Investigating the most extreme ancient village in the United States ~humanities.history Video 23:22, published Aug 3 2024 9 votes
Advanced technology discovered under Neolithic dwelling in Denmark – a stone paved root cellar, which could represent a remarkable technological leap in resource preservation ~humanities.history Article 767 words 14 votes
We may be close to rediscovering thousands of texts that had been lost for millennia. Their contents may reshape how we understand the Ancient World. ~humanities.history Article 5723 words 41 votes
The theory that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is wrong ~science anthropology Article 3158 words, published Nov 1 2023 58 votes
Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds ~humanities.history Article 898 words 24 votes
How rediscovering Neanderthals primed us for the search for extraterrestrial life ~science archaeology Article 3647 words, published Feb 15 2022 3 votes
Government without states (how to raise a tribal army in pre-Roman Europe, part II) ~humanities.history Article 5364 words 8 votes
Insular India - A video on the archaeological legacies of the Indian subcontinent ~humanities.history Video 38:27, published Apr 1 2024 5 votes
On the nature of ancient evidence ~humanities.history Article 4038 words, published Mar 26 2021 14 votes
Ancient Beat - the newsletter of ancient history - celebrates its 100th Issue ~humanities.history Link 6 votes
DNA from stone age chewing gum sheds light on diet and disease in Scandinavia's ancient hunter-gatherers ~humanities.history Article 974 words, published Jan 18 2024 11 votes
Looking for recommendations of Bronze Age historical fiction ~books fiction.historical Ask (recommendations) Basically what it says in the thread title- any recommendations are welcome. 12 votes
Ancient Beat - A weekly newsletter about developments in the study of the ancient world ~humanities.history Article 896 words 9 votes
Archeologists in Norway found an arrow that was likely trapped in ice for 4,000 years ~humanities.history Article 414 words 11 votes
Long barrows are Neolithic constructions that might have been churches, or graveyards, or landmarks. And some are being built again: for the first time in recorded history. ~humanities.history Video 6:04 15 votes
Ancient skull found in China is unlike any human seen before ~science archaeology Article 519 words 27 votes
When did humans start settling down? In Israel, new discoveries at one of the world’s oldest villages are upending the debate about when we stopped wandering. ~humanities.history Article 4361 words 21 votes
Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb ~humanities.languages Article 648 words 7 votes
Svante Pääbo deserves his accolade – palaeogenetics is an expanding field that tells us who we are ~science anthropology Article 948 words 5 votes
Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo has won this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research into how human beings evolved ~science anthropology Article 446 words 12 votes
Five ice-age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220,000 years ~science biology.evolutionary archaeology Article 1021 words 9 votes
High court victory for Stonehenge campaigners as tunnel is ruled unlawful ~transport Article 567 words 10 votes
A Swedish orienteering enthusiast working on a map earlier in April stumbled across a stash of some fifty Bronze Age relics dating back over 2,500 years ~humanities.history Article 321 words 8 votes
Extraordinary number of arrows dating from the Stone Age to the medieval period have melted out of a single ice patch in Norway in recent years ~humanities.history Article 411 words 8 votes
Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge ~humanities.history Article 920 words 7 votes
Truth and lies: Henrich Schliemann's excavations at Troy | Curator's Corner S05 E11 ~humanities.history Video 14:27 5 votes
Neolithic chewing gum helps recreate image of ancient Dane – analysis of birch tar describes a female hunter-gatherer with dark skin and blue eyes ~humanities.history Article 720 words 13 votes
This island of Minos: Crete in the Bronze Age ~humanities.history Article 3094 words, published Aug 27 2019 8 votes
The Bronze Age of Scandinavia was made possible by trade with Great Britain ~humanities.history Article 10 033 words 5 votes
Out of the cradle - a high quality, short, cgi film series about human prehistory ~humanities.history Video 3:11, published Mar 11 2019 6 votes
New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines ~science archaeology anthropology Article 1762 words 7 votes
Brain-imaging modern people making Stone Age tools hints at evolution of human intelligence ~science biology anthropology Article 1266 words, published May 8 2017 6 votes
Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing ~humanities.languages Article 2205 words 5 votes
Pygmy people in Indonesia not related to 'hobbit' but evolved short stature independently ~science biology anthropology Article 1064 words, published Aug 2 2018 3 votes