The last thing my 10-year-old asked me last night was if he'd get his seal shirt in the morning. The first thing my 11-year-old mumbled when I turned on his light and wished him a happy birthday was, ...

In the summer of 1995, an unusual photograph of Temple Newsam, a historic estate in Leeds, England, captured strange marks across the grass. To Mike Turpin and other local archaeology enthusiasts, the ...

Researchers found human-modified giant sloth bones dating to 25,000–27,000 years ago in Brazil, potentially pushing back South America’s earliest human presence by 12,000 years. Scientists used ...

Most archaeological mysteries eventually crack. A better dating method shows up, a related dig turns up context, and a decades-old puzzle resolves itself without much fanfare. A handful haven’t. Not ...

I will start with a strange story.In archaeology, it is not necessarily the case that superior pottery is easier to ...