High-tech tools have been used to take a new look at the La Virginea Pars map, which was drawn between 1585 and 1586 by British explorer John White. There are two patches on the very accurate map—it turns out that one corrects a mistake. The other patch covers a symbol that appears to be a […]

Archaeological scientist Tom Higham of the University of Oxford’s Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit is developing techniques to obtain more accurate radiocarbon dates of samples from the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition, a time when modern humans arrived in Europe and the last Neanderthals disappeared, between 30,000 and 50,000 years ago. It is a difficult process because when fossils are […]