Archaeologists working across the Czech Republic have identified Neolithic burial mounds, roughly 5,000 years old, hidden beneath intensively farmed fields. The discovery relies on a combination of ...

The drum unearthed in Weixin county, Southwest China's Yunnan Province Photo: Courtesy of the Weixin County Cultural Relics Management Department. A bronze drum dating to the East ...

An interdisciplinary study recently published in Nature Communications provides a clearer picture of life in Central Europe between 1300 and 800 BCE, during the Urnfield culture.

The ancient tradition of watching the night sky to guide farming resumed on Thursday in Maldrogungkar county in Lhasa, Xizang autonomous region, as locals gathered at the Dakpo Observatory to mark the ...

The growing paleopathological literature shows that scurvy was not a rare problem among people living in the ancient Asia-Pacific tropics. Scurvy is increasingly identified throughout the region, ...

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is even greater than we thought ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

Scientists have developed two powerful molecular tools that reveal how plants and fungi coordinate one of Earth’s oldest biological partnerships.

Researchers used molecular signatures in mobile DNA to trace the evolutionary origins of the cultivated strawberry genome.

Further south, in the Don River basin, the menu changed. There, the “chefs” were obsessed with seeds. The foodcrusts were packed with wild grasses and wild legumes, like clover, all cooked together ...

Shards from the Baltic region showed higher traces of freshwater fish, with some regions also including berries, sea beetroot, flowering rush, beets, and sea club-rush tubers. There were also traces ...

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