On a sunny morning in late September, Breck Parkman sat at a picnic table in the historic Sonoma Plaza, across the street from the city’s 1823 mission, the barracks that once housed Mexican troops and ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this Neolithic way of life spread from the Fertile Crescent across Anatolia and ...

Four-year-old Calla’s eyes light up. “Is it a dinosaur?” “A triceratops,” quips Hamish with a wry smile. Our trench supervisor leans in, countering “It’s probably bovine,” tracing butchery marks in ...

An intact 5,000-year-old tomb has been discovered in Teba, Spain, containing ivory, amber, shells, and trade networks.

Small settlements and the scourge of slavery left gaps in Africa's archaeological record. Yet sites and artifacts are revealing clues to the continent’s more recent history. An archaeologist explains ...

While excavating burials of hunter-gatherers in a cave in Vietnam, archaeologist Hsiao-chun Hung of the Australian National University wondered how to explain the flexed, folded, and contorted ...

Introduction: what is archaeology for the people? / John F. Cherry and Felipe Rojas -- The sanctuary: the world's oldest temple and the dawn of civilization / Elif Batuman -- An archaeology of ...