Researchers from Mainz, Oxford, and Innsbruck have used carbonate fragments to unravel the complex history of the Arles ...

Geoarchaeology : the earth-science approach to archaeological interpretation by Rapp, George Robert, 1930- Publication date 2006 Topics Archaeology -- Methodology, Archaeological geology Publisher New ...

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. Geoarchaeology began to develop in Latin America during the 1990s, driven by geoscientists with a keen interest in this ...

Hominids have been using fire for at least a million years — but scientists have found that human fire-wielding skills during our planet's last great Ice Age became so advanced that they would have ...

Archaeological records indicate that prehistoric people in Europe relied on fire throughout the Ice Age—but the evidence drops off during its harshest period.

Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools -- it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling that hardly any well ...

Picture yourself as a future settler on Mars. You gaze across a cold, barren landscape painted in rusty red and gray hues. But it’s not all dull. Here and there, faint tracks left by rover wheels cut ...

AMMAN — Located between the Karak and Tafileh governorates, Wadi Hasa was of interest for Jordanian and foreign researchers who from the late 1960’s conducted series of interdisciplinary human ecology ...

Ken Lawerence, principal investigator for SWCA goes over a site in Texas he investigated with a colleague during a presentation Saturday at the Museum of the Coastal Bend.

What happened to the three-metre tall apes that once lived alongside orangutans? A new study suggests they were too slow to adapt to a changing world.