The island dwarfism effect seems to have occurred independently in each population, thousands of years apart
The world's longest reversible cableway now carries an unprecedented number of visitors to this historic site
These transformative practices—and the cooperation they require—are a cornerstone of societies the world over
The skeletons of deer killed 120,000 years ago offer more evidence of cooperative behavior and risk-taking among our hominin relatives
A revolutionary American scientist is using subatomic physics to decipher 2,000-year-old texts from the early days of Western civilization
The collection of replica appendages is on display in Copenhagen's Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek art museum
What the amputated limbs and full skeletons of a Manassas burial pit tell us about wartime surgical practices
It's 1066 and William of Normandy and his massive army of 14,000 men are preparing to cross the English Channel and invade England
Rodent remains prove an ideal tool for investigating changes on three Polynesian island chains
The 1066 battle of Stamford Bridge was said to be so violent that a giant mountain of bones remained a half century later
On an island off the east coast of Maryland, a stone spearpoint sticking out of a coastal cliff stuns archaeologists
Arriving in the Chesapeake Bay, the early American inhabitants' first order of business would have been to craft weapons to defend themselves
A gold rush of fossil-finding is turning China into the new epicenter of paleontology
A wreck-diving archaeologist and his quest to discover a missing submarine
Climate change and desperation are putting the country’s unique history at risk
An archaeological expedition into the wilderness of North Carolina uncovers evidence of a remarkable settlement once filled with runaway slaves
A project with the University of Pennsylvania is seeking a new tool in an important battle
Archaeologists pushed back the date of cave paintings at three sites to 65,000 years ago—20,000 years before the arrival of humans in Europe
First, we feared and ate them, a new isotope analysis reveals
This reminder of centuries-old history was sitting in plain sight all along
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