Stone Age boy in Sweden was buried in deerskin and a woodpecker headdress, archaeologists discover
More than seven millennia ago, Stone Age mourners in what is now Sweden buried a boy with a crown of woodpecker feathers and, in another...
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In a ‘race against time,’ archaeologists uncovered Roman-era footprints from a Scottish beach before the tide washed them away
While walking their dogs along a cliff-flanked Scottish beach after an intense storm, a couple stumbled upon a series of unusual markings on the damp...
Paleo-Inuit people braved icy seas to reach remote Greenland islands 4,500 years ago, archaeologists discover
Paleo-Inuit people reached remote islands in the High Arctic off the northwest coast of Greenland nearly 4,500 years ago, according to a new study that...
More than 43,000 years ago, Neanderthals spent centuries collecting animal skulls in a cave; but archaeologists aren’t sure why
Neanderthals purposefully collected and positioned horned and antlered animal skulls in a cave in what is now Spain, suggesting that these extinct human relatives had...