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China Focus: Over 1,000 relics unearthed at the Sanxingdui Ruins © Provided by Xinhua CHENGDU, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Archeologists have unearthed more than 1,000 significant relics at the six new sacrificial pits of the legendary Sanxingdui Ruins site in southwest China. The excavation of the No.3 to No.8 sacrificial pits, which began in the second half of last year, is progressing smoothly, said Tang Fei, chief of the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute. Relics...

Combining evidence from archaeology, geochronology and paleoenvironmental science, researchers identified how ancient humans by Lake Malawi were the first to substantially modify their environment.

Archaeologists found hundreds of stone tools in a gold mine located in the Eastern Desert Atbara River (EDAR) area of Sudan (approximately 45 miles east of Atbara) that could be as old as a million years. The tools were believed to have been made by the Homo erectus species. Because of miners looking for gold in the area, archaeologists were able to analyze the ancient tools found in the exposed layers of the mines. The large tools included quartzite hand axes that contained transverse cutting...

Breakthrough Research Reveals Wonderwerk Cave Is the World’s Oldest Home In the Kalahari Desert of South Africa, has produced a cornucopia of wonders for archaeologists searching for the truth about human origins. Cave art, stone tools, burned bones, soil, and ash, and a collection of crystals have all been found inside the immense 80-foot (25-meter) wide Wonderwerk Cave that runs 460 feet (140 meters) deep into the Earth. These artifacts and remnants were clearly produced or accumulated in ...

In this week’s episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, two experts explain how melting ice in the far north is bringing more light to the Arctic Ocean and what this means for the species that live there. And we hear from a team of archaeologists on their new research in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge that found evidence of just how adaptable early humans were to the changing environment. Every summer, the sea ice in the Arctic melts – but it’s melting more and more each year. In Septembe...

An ancient campsite and hundreds of stone artifacts were unearthed near the 13 th century Rhuddlan Castle in Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, Wales. Additionally, they were located close to Twthill which is the location of a motte (or mound) dating back to the 11 th century and is believed to be where the town’s first castle was built. Denbighshire county councilor Ann Davies explained that a house was approved to be built on Hylas Lane which is near the castle and Twthill so they decided that an arch...

“We found a lot of  worked flint  from the Mesolithic period,” Richard Cooke explained. “There were three post holes, material from which was  carbon dated  at between 9220 and 9280 years old.” In total, the archaeologists recovered 314 stone objects buried at the site. In addition to flints they also found many chipped pieces of  chert, a hard sedimentary rock made from quartz crystals that is suitable for making tools. A few intact, rudimentary stone tools made from these materi...

Follow Jan. 21, 2021 Starting about 2.6 million years ago, no archaic human would leave the cave without one. Archaeologists called these flint implements “chopping tools,” even though their actual use remained hotly debated. They weren’t the first stone tools ever used by hominins, but were the earliest known to be produced in a standardized fashion: the outer layer of the rock was left unmolested, and one end was knapped to have a sharp edge. The hominin would, presumably, grab the non-...

Prior to workers in North Carolina clearing out land for the Triangle Expressway, archaeologists investigated the site to see if there were any signs that the original inhabitants of the state once occupied the area and what they found was pretty exciting. In an interview with ABC11, Matt Wilkerson, who is the head of the archaeology unit with the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), described what they found, “As a result of the survey for this entire corridor, we identified...

A team of international archaeologists and paleoanthropologists unearthed a big amount of stone tools dating back 2 million years during the Early Pleistocene period in addition to fossilized bones and plant materials. The discovery was made at a site called Ewass Oldupa which is located in the western part of the ancient basin Olduvai Gorge (now called Oldupai) in the northern part of Tanzania. The stone tools that were found were part of the Oldowan which is the oldest-known stone tool indust...