Enlarge / Stonehenge as viewed from the northeast, showing the post-and-lintel construction of the Sarsen Circle. (credit: Timothy Darvill) Stonehenge was an important place for thousands of years before people placed the first stones, according to a recent study. Archaeologists used the microscopic remains of insects, pollen, fungal spores, and ancient DNA preserved in the […]
Enlarge Archaeologists working near the small Croatian village of Potočani made a grim discovery in 2007. In a shallow pit, just a meter deep and two meters wide, they found the jumbled bones of at least 41 people. Radiocarbon dating on several of the bones revealed that they’d been in the pit for around 6,200 […]
Expand (charge: Elizabeth Tersigni) Founded researcher Anders Bergstrom and his coworkers recently sequenced the genomes of all 27 puppies out of archaeological sites scattered across Europe and Asia, which range from 4,000 to 11,000 years of age. People genomes, and those of {} , reveal how dogs have transferred across the globe with people because […]