A Swiss museum will return a 4,000-year-old limestone stele to Egypt this week. An ancient First Nations cemetery has been discovered in British Columbia. Archaeological data from 300 Australian rock shelter sites was used to estimate the population of Aboriginal people over the past 10,000 years. Christopher Johnson of the University of Tasmania and Barry […]

New radiocarbon dates for Neanderthal bones unearthed in Russia indicate that they are at least 10,000 years older than previously thought. The dates are the result of a new method to remove contamination that was developed by Thomas F.G. Higham of Oxford University. Further statistical analysis of other Neanderthal sites in Europe suggests that Neanderthals […]