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World’s oldest evidence of habitual drug use found in 25,000-year-old teeth in Indonesia | Archaeology News Online Magazine
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (528+ words) areca nuts. Their results appeared September 9 in Science Advances. Modern users usually chew betel nuts...
AI reveals how Edo-period Japanese ceramic jars became standardized | Archaeology News Online Magazine
3+ week, 1+ day ago (523+ words) according to a new study from the Institute of Science Tokyo. Researchers used shape analysis and machine...
Ancient Egyptian tomb reveals how burial practices changed from individual burials to stacked mummies | Archaeology News Online Magazine
3+ week, 4+ day ago (619+ words) A tomb in the Theban Necropolis near Luxor offers a detailed record of how ancient Egyptians reused burial spaces over several centuries. A new study of Chamber 3 in Tomb TT 209 shows a shift from separate burials in coffins to dense,…...
Ancient Etruscan tombs were designed to shape how mourners saw, heard and felt | Archaeology News Online Magazine
1+ week, 22+ hour ago (683+ words) Ancient Etruscan tombs may have been designed to shape how people saw, heard and felt during funeral rites, according to a new study of two painted tombs in Tarquinia, Italy. The study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Method and…...
Post-medieval child labor left Dutch children with damaged spines before adulthood | Archaeology News Online Magazine
2+ week, 14+ hour ago (529+ words) A new study of Dutch skeletal remains shows how hard child labor damaged growing spines between the 17th and 19th centuries. Researchers examined the remains of 143 children and young adults aged about 4 to 25 years from three Dutch populations dating from 1650 to 1850. The…...
Blood may have helped ancient Chinese rock art survive for 2,000 years | Archaeology News Online Magazine
4+ week, 22+ hour ago (574+ words) Ancient paintings on limestone cliffs in southern China have survived more than 2,000 years of heat, rain, and storms. A new study suggests their unusual durability came from a paint binder made from lime and blood. The Huashan rock art belt…...
Ancient wildfires may have helped Neolithic people invent pottery | Archaeology News Online Magazine
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (581+ words) Intense wildfires in the ancient southern Levant might have helped Neolithic people develop pottery, according to a new study. The fires burned wide areas, stripped hillsides of plants and soil, and sent clay-rich earth into valleys. Amos Frumkin of the…...
9,000-year-old obsidian arrowheads in Turkey bear mysterious marks with no known meaning | Archaeology News Online Magazine
3+ week, 1+ day ago (547+ words) Archaeologists have found 11 more carved obsidian arrowheads at Tepecik-Çiftlik in Cappadocia, Turkey. The finds raise the site’s total to 12 and add to a regional group of 54 known examples. The arrowheads date to the Neolithic, between the late eighth and seventh…...
Low-cost LED technology helps archaeologists see hidden layers before excavation | Archaeology News Online Magazine
1+ week, 3+ day ago (558+ words) A low-cost imaging system using 16 wavelengths of light could help archaeologists spot hidden layers and materials before excavation removes them. Researchers from Aarhus University and Moesgaard Museum in Denmark developed the LED multispectral imaging system, or LEDMSI, to reveal differences…...
Cannibalism in Spain took different forms during the Neolithic, from violence to ritual | Archaeology News Online Magazine
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (581+ words) results, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, show a clear pattern. All three caves contain...