In today’s rapidly changing news landscape, many peer-reviewed studies don’t receive mass media attention. But studies that ...

New lidar research shows the Maya civilization peaked at 16 million people, revealing dense cities and vast rural networks.

The so-called 'ice mummies' of Siberia's Altai mountains are an exception, since their deep burial chambers encased in ...

DhRl 16 The Science of Archaeology Archaeology is a way to understand how people lived in the past. While some archaeologists excavate on 'digs', not all do. Some survey, (looking for sites), some ...

Because the seal had never been broken, the Etruscan tomb’s grave goods had also gone completely untouched by looters.

Archaeological Science, often interchangeably termed archaeometry, represents an inherently interdisciplinary field that blends methods drawn from the physical, chemical, biological, and social ...

This is only the 11 th known discovery of a trilobite—a now-extinct class of marine arthropods reminiscent of armored beetles —in an archaeological context, and it came from a Roman settlement ...

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Lead poisoning may have played a role in the death of fraternal twin babies from 2,000 years ago found buried facing each other in Croatia, according to a new study. Though it’s unclear exactly ...