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  1. Archaeology | Science News

    3 days ago · Archaeology 12,000-year-old rock art hints at the Arabian Desert’s lush past Newly found engravings of animals on rock outcrops in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud desert show nomads lived there …

  2. Archaeology’s top discoveries of 2024 include preserved brains and a ...

    Dec 17, 2024 · From the plight of ancient Egyptian scribes to the identities of ancient Maya sacrifices, 2024 brought a rich medley of insights into human history.

  3. A race to save Indigenous trails may change the face of archaeology

    Oct 29, 2024 · As construction of a pipeline nears, an effort to preserve an Indigenous trail in Canada tests whether heritage management can keep up with advances in archaeology.

  4. Stone Age hunter-gatherers may have been surprisingly skilled seafarers

    Apr 9, 2025 · New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

  5. Archaeology | Page 2 of 56 | Science News

    Jun 5, 2025 · Archaeology Neandertals invented bone-tipped spears all on their own An 80,000-year-old bone point found in Eastern Europe challenges the idea that migrating Homo sapiens gave the …

  6. Archaeology | Page 3 of 56 | Science News

    Feb 27, 2025 · Archaeology Humans moved into African rainforests at least 150,000 years ago This oldest known evidence of people living in tropical forests supports an idea that human evolution …

  7. Rethinking archaeology and place - Science News

    Nov 2, 2024 · Pompeii. Machu Picchu. Stonehenge. Angkor Wat. The Great Pyramid of Giza. Those of us who grew up in Western cultures tend to think of archaeology as the study of a place — a point on …

  8. Satellites are transforming how archaeologists study the past

    Aug 4, 2019 · In ‘Archaeology from Space,’ Sarah Parcak takes readers on a lively tour of the past, and archaeology of the 21st century.

  9. A huge, ancient Maya city has been found in southern Mexico

    Nov 6, 2024 · Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

  10. Precolonial farmers thrived in one of North America’s coldest places

    Jun 5, 2025 · Ancestral Menominee people in what’s now Michigan’s Upper Peninsula grew maize and other crops on large tracts of land despite harsh conditions.