In the American-Statesman archives we found the previous story on the treasures buried beneath Zilker Park in Austin ...

Newly discovered 4,000-year-old settlement in Morocco rewrites history - A new archaeological discovery challenges the long-held belief that the Maghreb was an empty land before the arrival of the Pho ...

If pressed, most Kansans would guess the Kansa Indians were the state’s first farmers and corn was their first crop. And they’d be wrong. “There were people farming here a thousand years ...

The abacus, a simple counting aid, may have been invented in Babylonia (now Iraq) in the fourth century B.C. The Antikythera mechanism, used for registering and predicting the motion of the stars ...

I have worked on numerous projects in economic prehistory with Clyde Reed since about 2003. Much of our research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, with ...

New Delhi, March 24: Archaeologists have discovered India’s oldest stone-age tools, up to 1.5 million years old, at a prehistoric site near Chennai. The discovery may change existing ideas about the ...

The study, based on an innovative analysis of pottery production and circulation, opens the door to identifying similar ...

Spencer primarily researches the early prehistory of hunter-gatherers in the High Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West, but also maintains research interests in geoarchaeology, site ...