PARIS – Archaeologists say two students have found a human tooth from about 560,000 years ago in a famous prehistoric cave in southwestern France, the oldest human body part ever discovered in the ...

Nearly 250 schoolchildren — some from a girls’ Lego construction team — and 35 adult volunteers helped search for the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an Iron Age cemetery around an earlier prehistoric burial mound in Germany. The remains were discovered close to the River Weser in the Minden-Lübbecke district of North ...

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

One look at the bulging buttocks of the squat female figurine and British Archaeologist James Mellaart recognized a Stone Age fertility symbol; the dig he was starting on a plain in southern Turkey ...

The massive pits at Durrington Walls in Wiltshire are set at regular intervals, ten metres in diameter and more than five metres deep. Professor Vince Gaffney said that as a "cohesive structure" they ...

Tensions, pluralities, and engendering archaeology : an introduction to women and prehistory / Margaret W. Conkey and Joan M. Gero -- Gender theory and the archaeological record : why is there no ...

Archeologists say they have finally cracked the 6,000-year-old mystery of Armenia’s “dragon stones" – massive carved ...

Deep beneath the French countryside, a set of faint engravings on a cave floor is forcing archaeologists to rethink when ...

A metal detectorist finds a small 2,200-year-old Celtic gold coin in Saxony that rewrites pre-Roman trade routes in Europe.

Between 1965 and 1989, archaeological investigations in connection with the Elk Creek Dam Project, some 60 km. north of the California border in Jackson County, Oregon, documented a record of Native ...

A site owned by British aerospace and defense firm Rolls-Royce has yielded "remarkable" archaeological discoveries. During ongoing infrastructure improvement works at the Filton site in Bristol, ...