A team of researchers from the University of Burgos and the Atapuerca Foundation has published the first detailed analysis of the bone retouchers found in the Valdegoba cave, in the municipality of Huérmeces (Burgos). This site, occupied by Neanderthals during the Middle Paleolithic, has yielded 38 bone fragments that were used as tools to retouch […]
The Egyptian archaeological mission under the authority of the Supreme Council of Antiquities has brought to light, during excavation work carried out in the archaeological area of Kom el-Khilgan, in the Dakahlia Governorate, a necropolis whose origins date back to the Predynastic Period and whose use continued through the Greek and Roman eras, together with […]
Researchers from the University of Catania, in collaboration with the Archaeological Park of Catania and the Valley of the Aci, have located beneath the stage of the Teatro Antico a network of underground channels that in Roman times was used to intercept and evacuate groundwater toward the sea. The discovery, the result of a geoarchaeological […]
The research, published in the journal Science, was led by Richard F. Kay, emeritus professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. The work, which used a unique collection of skulls mostly from the Natural History Museum of the Duke […]
The history of the Roman Empire is often told through the exploits of emperors and generals, but the mechanisms of daily administration and, especially, the relationships between central power and the provinces, constitute an equally revealing field of study to understand the dynamics of that civilization. In this context, the discovery and subsequent analysis of […]
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