A site in Switzerland contained evidence of an administrative center that was part of a bigger plan to build a urban center ...

Nearly 250 schoolchildren — some from a girls’ Lego construction team — and 35 adult volunteers helped search for the ...

PARIS – Archaeologists say two students have found a human tooth from about 560,000 years ago in a famous prehistoric cave in southwestern France, the oldest human body part ever discovered in the ...

A 400-foot-long granite structure off the coast of Brittany suggests late hunter-gatherers were already beginning to settle ...

French marine archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery off the coast of Brittany - a massive underwater wall dating to approximately 5000 BC that predates the famous megalithic monuments of ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an Iron Age cemetery around an earlier prehistoric burial mound in Germany. The remains were discovered close to the River Weser in the Minden-Lübbecke district of North ...

The term "culture" has a bad reputation in archaeological research—and for good reason. In the early 20th century, the German ...

A site owned by British aerospace and defense firm Rolls-Royce has yielded "remarkable" archaeological discoveries. During ongoing infrastructure improvement works at the Filton site in Bristol, ...

Between 1965 and 1989, archaeological investigations in connection with the Elk Creek Dam Project, some 60 km. north of the California border in Jackson County, Oregon, documented a record of Native ...

Tensions, pluralities, and engendering archaeology : an introduction to women and prehistory / Margaret W. Conkey and Joan M. Gero -- Gender theory and the archaeological record : why is there no ...

One look at the bulging buttocks of the squat female figurine and British Archaeologist James Mellaart recognized a Stone Age fertility symbol; the dig he was starting on a plain in southern Turkey ...

Evidence of feasting in the Hebrides 5,000 years ago and the discovery of a lost medieval settlement in the Borders have been ...