Archaeologists should consider tapping into satellite imagery when assessing the impacts climate change can have on ancient underground structures, a new study argues. Specifically, the study focuses ...

“Sites that appear on the surface as scattered stones suddenly become coherent, organized spaces, and it saves a lot of research time,” Dr. Yitzchak Jaffe said. A new computational tool developed at ...

The archaeology session of the seminar examined how new scientific tools, interdisciplinary methods, and digital technologies are transforming the study of the past while creating new frameworks for ...

LONDON, ENGLAND—According to a CNN report, researchers from the University of York have detected 16 types of microplastic polymers in soil collected from archaeological sites. Archived soil samples ...

Dog walkers discovered rare 2,000-year-old footprints on a Scottish beach, sparking an urgent archaeological race and rescue ...

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MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Technological University is inviting people to take a new course, Archaeology Field School, this fall. Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Historical Archaeologist and ...

The project plans to investigate areas of the Gulf that were dry land during the last ice age—which ended around 11,000 years ago—but ended up underwater because of the rising sea level. As part of ...

The Neolithic settlement of Skara Brae in Scotland’s Orkney Islands. In 1991, two tourists in the Italian Alps discovered Ötzi, a well-preserved, 5300-year-old mummy that was exposed by a melting ...

Kenaitze Tribe Cultural Observer Andrew Wilson (right) watches over archeological work near the Sterling Highway during summer 2023. (Courtesy Michael Bernard) The Kenaitze Indian Tribe continued its ...

A archaeological survey of an island near Kodiak has discovered new Alaska Native village sites, including one believed to be the island's oldest. Shuyak Island is one of several located in the Kodiak ...