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Lithic artefacts span millions of years in the archaeological record and provide evidence for how tools were made and used at various analytical scales – from determining local tasks to understanding subsistence economies, behavioural adaptations, origins of human culture, and evolution. The procurement and production of stone tools are central to many interpretations of past human behaviours in the landscape. There are many analytical techniques available for geochemical characterizations wit...

Before dying at a young age, she likely suffered through a painful existence, researchers said.

Archaeologists in Kent have made a striking find. Within a pit dating back to medieval times, they uncovered a bone flute in surprisingly good condition.

Ancient religious texts and mythologies talk about an ancient race of giants. What do they tell us about their final fate?

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas (AFNS) --   An Air Force team conducting an archaeological inventory in the west Utah desert has emerged with a discovery poised to completely reframe experts’ understanding of human tobacco use in North America.

A Mesolithic girl infant’s remains, surrounded by shell beads, was recently found in a northern Italian cave, shedding new light on Mesolithic burial customs.

Middle Pleistocene fire use indicates that the first sign of widespread cultural diffusion in human evolution

Updated: February 12, 2021 00:50 IST India’s leaders must recommit themselves to the ideas and activism of environmentalists involved with Uttarakhand Share Article AAA India’s leaders must recommit themselves to the ideas and activism of environmentalists involved with Uttarakhand Following flash floods at Chamoli in Uttarakhand, defence personnel are looking for missing persons in a mélange of rock, mud, water, and debris, airlifting rations to inaccessible villages, and repairing bridge...