About 7,000 years ago, a small group of people sat around a fire, next to a small lake in what is now the Nefud Desert of northern Saudi Arabia. We found some of the tools they left behind – and on…

A team of researchers using DNA analysis has determined a group of decapitated, animal-bitten, injured men from Roman-era Britain were mostly of European origin, but one was from the Middle East, says…

The field of bioarchaeology look to skeletons that are thousands of years old for insights into the nature of long ago societies.

Scattered under the ground beneath our feet are the remains of history. There are little pieces of the lives of people who lived before us that give us little glimpses into who they were—the things…

The burial site could shed light on the little-known culture of Paris’ precursor Lutetia, a Gallo-Roman town that existed nearly 2000 years ago.

·Zooarchaeologists study the genetic and physical changes in animals as a result of domestication (domestication is a multi-generational relationship between humans and certain plants and animals).

The remains of a partial skeleton dating back 78,000 years have been recovered from a pit in Kenya and are believed to be the earliest evidence of human burial in Africa, according to an international…