Tomorrow marks the winter solstice, when the chamber at Newgrange, Ireland’s 5,000-year-old tomb, fills with light at sunrise. Fluctuations in the climate influenced cultural changes in prehistoric New England, according to a review of information collected from Pennsylvania to Maine. “It’s not a straightforward relationship,” cautioned Samuel Munoz of the University of Wisconsin.   Pillar holes […]

Archaeologist Mario Bergeron, aged 55, has died of injuries he sustained during an excavation in Montreal. He had been uncovering the remains of Canada’s first permanent parliament building. A 50,000-year-old human skull fragment may have been used by Neanderthals as a sharpening tool. The bone was found in a cave in southwestern France, among other […]