While cataloging hundreds of freshwater mussel shells collected at the end of the 19th century by the Dutch anatomist and geologist Eugene Dubois – the discoverer of Java man, the first known fossil of Homo erectus – on the banks of the Bengawan Solo river in East Java, Prof Roebroeks and his

When Polynesians in the early 14th century arrived on the islands that would later be called New Zealand, they found a land rich with wildlife. That was great for the humans but not so much for several species of large, flightless birds called moa. The Polynesians’ arrival spelled their doom —

Benjamin Altshuler is on the classics faculty at the University of Oxford and is the current Classics Conclave fellow at the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents. Altshuler is a specialist in reflectance transformation imaging (RTI), a computational photographic method that illuminates surface

Trypillian culture derives its name from the village of Trypillia in Kyiv region, Ukraine, where artifacts of this ancient civilization were first discovered in 1896. Archeological excavations show that Trypillian people lived from about 5400 to 2700 BC on a vast area extending from the Carpathian

Hunter-gatherers inhabited high-altitude settings nearly a millennium earlier than archaeologists thought, researchers discovered. Two sites in the Peruvian Andes are between 12,800 and 11,500 years old and are more than 4,300 meters high, making them the highest Ice Age settlements ever found.