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Chinese archeologists believed that that the first wells in China were built about 6,000 to 7,000 years ago in the late Neolithic, but the new finding “pushes the origins of China’s wells back over 2,000 years.”

Archaeologists have been excavating in the ancient Egyptian city of Tell Edfu, and have discovered two new buildings that date to the Fifth Dynasty.

Youngsters have probably been playing their way into cultural competence for at least tens of thousands of years. So why are signs of children largely absent from the archaeological record?

About 65,000 years ago, a large carnivore — perhaps a cave hyena — chomped down on the face of a (likely dead) Neanderthal. Then, that carnivore partially digested two of the hominin’s teeth before regurgitating them.

More than 100 researchers have collaborated to classify the world’s tropical forests according to their evolutionary history.

UK researchers believe they were already in decline before the killer asteroid hit because they had occupied every habitat on Earth.

The first known multipurpose tools were crafted 170,000 years ago by Neanderthals, who exploited fire during the manufacturing process.

In a new study, scientists measured mercury concentrations in permafrost cores from Alaska and estimated how much mercury has been trapped in permafrost north of the equator since the last Ice Age.

Plans to build a tunnel past Stonehenge risk destroying an important Ice Age site. An archaeologist has accused the Government of wrongly marking its location on a map.

A canoe, or va’atele, from Samoa has sailed to New Zealand for a three week festival to promote a part of their culture that is at risk of dying.

In a hugely detailed and comprehensive new study, researchers have painted a picture of how around a tenth of Earth’s surface suddenly became covered in roaring fires at a point some 12,800 years ago.

The tomb of a woman named Hetpet, who became a senior official in the royal palace, has been discovered in a cemetery on the Giza Plateau.

The proposition of “First Sculpture,” from its title onward, is that these are not merely instruments, but art; that they were crafted not just for functional reasons but for aesthetic ones.