Locals want the practice banned due to environmental concerns, but experts hold mixed views on whether the structures are ...

A ritual and funerary landscape is emerging in northwestern Africa, revealing connections with the Mediterranean, Atlantic ...

A fascinating find deep in the Baltic Sea is stirring up fresh questions about Europe’s prehistoric past. Researchers have ...

We get it, we can’t all take months off to go roaming around the world, and 3 weeks vacation is nothing to scoff at. Luckily, ...

A weighty and sentimental piece of Tucson-area history has vanished from Saguaro National Park. A massive rock cairn at Rincon Peak, erected by a surveyor in 1903 to help map the lands that became ...

A ‘unique’ round tower house that was built for a noble Scots family in the mid 1400s and remains in good condition has ...

Lichens on stone, those "still explosions" as the great American poet Elizabeth Bishop named them, remain unseen to most, ...

Michael Cairns flew a National Guard helicopter on a rescue and recovery mission to Mount St. Helens. His book, "Under the ...

Rounding out Preservation Month, HLF will also present a second program, this one advancing community knowledge of several ...

Stone walls can be found here and there in other states, but only in New England are they nearly ubiquitous. That’s due to a regionally unique combination of hard crystalline bedrock, glacial soils ...

But as an experimental archaeologist with over a decade of experience studying and manufacturing stone tools, I can say that there are telltale signs that a rock has been modified by humans or our ...

Hominins manufacture stone tools by fracturing or abrading rock. Here, I am going to focus on fractured or flaked stone technology because tools made through this technique dominate the ...