Stone Age Site Surfaces After 8000 Years (August 14, 2007) -- Excavations of an underwater Stone Age archaeological settlement dating back 8000 years took place at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. The team of archaeologists will take the sections ... > full story

Remnants Of Ancient Synagogue In Albania Revealed (October 9, 2003) -- Impressive remnants from a synagogue dating from the 5th or 6th century, C.E., have been revealed in the city of Saranda, a coastal city in Albania, opposite the Greek island of ... > full story

Dutch Archaeologists Uncover Earliest Egyptian Temple (January 21, 2000) -- During excavations at Tel Ibrahim Awad in the eastern Nile Delta, Dutch archaeologists discovered a large Middle Kingdom temple. Beneath this building, which dates from around 2000 BC, there were ... > full story

Archaeological CD-ROM Breaks New Ground (January 28, 1998) -- A unique new CD-ROM full of scholarly detail and general information about North Carolina's Occaneechi Indians could change academic publications in archaeology ... > full story

Texas A&M; Field School Discoveries May Rewrite History Of Early North American Man (February 8, 2001) -- New discoveries in a valley on the eastern edge of the Texas Hill Country will prompt rewriting the history of early North American man, predict Texas A&M; University archaeologists who are ... > full story

Ancient Wooden Anchor Discovered (May 17, 2007) -- The world's oldest wooden anchor was discovered during excavations in the Turkish port city of Urla, the ancient site of Liman Tepe, the Greek 1st Millennium BCE colony of Klazomenai. The anchor, ... > full story

Brookhaven Lab Expert Helps Date Flute Thought To Be Oldest Playable Musical Instrument (October 5, 1999) -- Researchers in China have uncovered what might be the oldest playable musical instrument. Recent excavations at the early Neolithic site of Jiahu, located in Henan province, China, have yielded six ... > full story

Scholar Develops New System For Overlooked Wares Of Ancient Greece (January 2, 2003) -- Up until now, a small minority of pottery from the earliest Mycenaean civilization has gotten nearly all of the attention. Work by University of Cincinnati doctoral candidate Jeffrey L. Kramer is ... > full story

Nut-Cracking Chimps: First Primate Archaeological Dig Uncovers New Tool Development Links (May 24, 2002) -- A study of chimpanzees' use of hammers to open nuts in western Africa may provide fresh clues to how tools developed among human ancestors. A paper published in the May 24 issue of the journal ... > full story

Field Museum 'Reuniting' Scattered Collections From Ancient Iraq Site (November 1, 2004) -- The Field Museum is embarking on a two-year project that could help bridge cultural and scientific barriers exacerbated by the Iraq ... > full story

Archaeological Dig Resumes In Egypt -- And Online (December 23, 2002) -- Armchair archaeologists can witness a dig at an ancient Egyptian temple from the comfort of their home ... > full story

Excavation -- Excavation is the best-known and most commonly used technique within the science of archaeology. Individual excavations are normally referred to simply as "digs" by those who participate, this being ... > full article

Archaeological field survey -- Archaeological field survey is the methodological process by which archaeologists (often landscape archaeologists) collect information about the location, distribution and organisation of past human ... > full article

Artifact (archaeology) -- An artifact or artefact is any object made or modified by a human culture, and often one later recovered by some archaeological endeavor. Examples include stone tools such as projectile points, ... > full article

Archaeology --

Archaeology, archeology, or archæology is the science that studies human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including ... > full article

Lascaux -- Lascaux is a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its cave paintings. The original caves are located near the village of Montignac, in the Dordogne departement. They contain some of the ... > full article

Peking Man -- Peking Man (sometimes now called Beijing Man), also called Sinanthropus pekinensis (currently Homo erectus pekinensis), is an example of Homo erectus. The remains were first discovered in 1923-27 ... > full article

Iron Age -- In archaeology, the Iron Age is the stage in the development of any people where the use of iron implements as tools and weapons is prominent. The adoption of this new material coincided with other ... > full article

Pompeii -- Pompeii is a ruined Roman city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the commune of Pompei. It was destroyed during a catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount ... > full article

Stone Age -- The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric time period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking. Stone tools were made from a variety of different kinds of stone. For example, flint and chert ... > full article

Soil contamination -- Soil contamination is the presence of man-made chemicals or other alteration to the natural soil environment. This type of contamination typically arises from rupture of underground storage tanks, ... > full article