Archaeology

Artifacts found in a Mexican cave are about 30,000 years old.
Charles Q. Choi, Contributor
Bird statuette, recovered from a refuse heap, more than doubles the age of the earliest known animal sculpture from East Asia.
Charles Q. Choi, Contributor
New find raises questions regarding size and timing of large settlements in Central America.
Charles Q. Choi, Contributor
Pendants made from cave bear teeth are among the items found with the earliest modern human fossils in a cave in Bulgaria.
Charles Q. Choi, Contributor
New research indicates that new technologies emerged on the island separately from Eurasian innovations.
Charles Q. Choi, Contributor
New dating of a trove of fossils suggests our cousin hominin went extinct because of climate change.
Charles Q. Choi, Contributor
Wood from the foundation of a 2,000-year-old building in Rome traced to a mountain forest in what is now France.
Charles Q. Choi, Contributor
Recently uncovered archaeological evidence matches the Bible's account of Babylonian invasion 2,600 years ago.
Joel Shurkin, Contributor
Artifacts found in Idaho support theory that humans reached the Americas before a land route to Asia existed.
Charles Q. Choi, Contributor
The fate of battleship remains may rest in the hands of countries that don't own the ships.
Joshua Learn, Contributor
Violence and disease -- but also art and culture -- accompanied humanity's movement into increasingly populated areas.
Charles Q. Choi, Contributor
A newly analyzed jawbone is the first confirmed Denisovan fossil found anywhere outside Siberia.
Charles Q. Choi, Contributor