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The piece of oak was discovered lying in peat during the construction of an outbuilding at a property in Berkshire.

A ‘REMARKABLE’ piece of carved wood discovered by chance, in Berkshire, is more than 6,000 years old – making it the oldest carved wood in…

Rabbits on Skokholm Island discovered Stone Age tools and fragments of a Bronze Age cremation urn

Archaeologists have discovered the oldest known human remains in northern Germany in a 10,500-year-old cremation grave in Lüchow, Schleswig-Holstein. The remains were discovered in the Duvensee bog, a prehistoric inland lake that contains more...

An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has created a method that can precisely date up to ten-thousand-year-old human remains by examining DNA with the use of artificial intelligence (AI).

© C-Dental X-ray, Inc. Wisdom teeth cannot emerge properly when the jaw is too short, as occurs when children are raised on foods that are easier to chew than the ones we evolved to eat. Subtle differences in the oral microbiomes from ancient plaque samples in southern Europe point to potentially gradual agricultural transitions during the Neolithic age, new research suggests, but more significant microbial shifts happened later on. "[T]he Neolithic is a gradual and slow process, and in parti...

Rattling Noise Made by Prehistoric Ornaments Investigated Friday, June 4, 2021 HELSINKI, FINLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Helsinki, auditory archaeologist Riitta Rainio and artist Juha Valkeapää danced for six consecutive hours while wearing elk tooth ornaments sewn in rows on an apron, and then examined the microscopic wear marks left behind on the teeth as they clattered against each other. The researchers then compared these wear marks to elk teeth re...

Burials from 8,200 years ago on a wee island far up in the north contain all kinds of gear for the afterlife – half of which is elk teeth engraved to be worn as pendants