Radiocarbon Dating

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, proving that the archaic humans were distributed widely over Asia.

Archaeologists in Vienna, Austria, uncovered a significant find: a Roman mass grave from the first century A.D., located beneath a soccer field. They shared their findings publicly.

Scientists may have just found a canal the Romans built 2,100 years ago while battling the Celts.

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia's Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how environmental devastation has erased much of the region's history

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.

Learn about Flagstones, a circular enclosure in southern Britain that is now dated to around 3200 B.C.E The site, which was used for ancient burials, now predates Stonehenge.

Researchers believe the figurines' bodies and heads were controlled by using a string.

The 'Lapedo Child' shares traits from both and has confounded scientists for close to 30 years.

Learn what scientists discovered about this penguin massacre and why humans likely played an unwitting role.

Covered in runic writing, the find may once have marked a grave—or several.

Footprints from people and animals feeling the eruption of Vesuvius in 1995 B.C. were recently discovered in a town near Pompeii.

Warming temperatures mean similar trees may return to the area—for better or worse.

Montana State University scientists say the frozen remnants of an ancient forest discovered 600 feet above the modern tree line on the Beartooth Plateau may portend possible changes for the alpine ecosystem if the climate continues to warm.

SCOTCHTOWN, N.Y. — Scholars are hailing the discovery of a fossilized mastodon jaw discovered by a man who spotted two giant teeth while gardening at his upstate New York home this year. The mastodon jaw and some other bone fragments were found in late September in a backyard near Scotchtown,

The extremely violent treatment of the corpses of at least 37 Bronze Age people is rewriting the history of prehistoric Britain.

In a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE, archaeologists examined the exceptional human remains from the Middle Trypillia site of Kosenivka (ca. 3700-3600 BCE) in Ukraine.

A now-dead clam nicknamed "Ming" is the oldest living individual animal ever found at 507 years old.

The discovery of complex fish trapping networks from 4,000 years ago hint at how the Maya rose up as a civilization in Central America and what is now southern Mexico.

Learn why this one-of-a-kind discovery helps researchers understand more about the saber-tooth cat.

Dated to around 2400 BCE, the writing precedes other known alphabetic scripts by roughly 500 years, according to Johns Hopkins University's Professor Glenn Schwartz.