Researchers for generations have tried to understand why Australia’s Ice Age giants — enormous kangaroos, car-sized wombat-like creatures, and massive flightless birds — went extinct. Many have thought that the arrival of humans in Sahul — the ancient landmass that once linked Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea — sometime around 65,000 years ago may have […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A recent study published in PLOS One reveals that Neanderthals and early modern humans began to reshape Europe’s ecosystems tens of thousands of years before the rise of agriculture. Rather than being passive foragers in an unspoiled wilderness, these early populations actually influenced vegetation patterns across the continent. The international research team, comprising archaeologists, ecologists, […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Airborne laser scanning over the Karst Plateau, on the border between Slovenia and Italy, has revealed a network of prehistoric stone constructions unparalleled in Europe. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the study identifies four dry-stone monumental megastructures that are the largest and most probably the oldest large-scale hunting system […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Satellite imagery has revealed 76 ancient stone hunting traps and hundreds of previously unseen settlements in the high-altitude Andes of northern Chile—evidence that hunting and gathering persisted at the center of Andean life long after agriculture appeared. The discovery, led by Dr. Adrián Oyaneder of the University of Exeter and published in Antiquity, contradicts centuries […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
'Oddly shaped head' left in Italian cave 12,500 years ago is Europe's oldest known case of cranial modification, study finds| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A controversial new paper says Göbekli Tepe may be the world's oldest calendar, reigniting debate over the 11,500-year-old megalithic site.| The Debrief
New research suggests that the Altar Stone at the Center of the Stonehenge monument likely came from hundreds of kilometers away.| The Debrief
