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DNA reveals extended hunter-gatherer family ties in 5,500-year-old Stone Age graves on Gotland
A 5,500-year-old cemetery on Gotland is offering a close look at family life among one of the last hunter-gatherer groups in northern Europe. Researchers studied graves at Ajvide, a major site linked to the Pitted Ware Culture...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/hunter-gatherer-family-ties-on-gotland/
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How coral buildings are helping archaeologists date colonial-era sites in French Polynesia
Archaeologists working in the Pacific have found a new way to date colonial-era buildings by studying the coral blocks used to build them. The method offers a more direct way to estimate construction dates in regions where written records are limited or incomplete...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/04/coral-buildings-colonial-era-sites-in-french-polynesia/
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How coral buildings are helping archaeologists date colonial-era sites in French Polynesia
Archaeologists working in the Pacific have found a new way to date colonial-era buildings by studying the coral blocks used to build them. The method offers a more direct way to estimate construction dates in regions where written records are limited or incomplete...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/04/coral-buildings-colonial-era-sites-in-french-polynesia/
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Ancient DNA study rewrites fall of Rome, reveals small migrations shaped Central Europe
A large genetic study of early medieval burials in southern Germany is changing how historians describe the end of Roman rule in Central Europe...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/fall-of-rome-small-migrations-central-europe/
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Ancient DNA study rewrites fall of Rome, reveals small migrations shaped Central Europe
A large genetic study of early medieval burials in southern Germany is changing how historians describe the end of Roman rule in Central Europe...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/fall-of-rome-small-migrations-central-europe/
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Ancient DNA study rewrites fall of Rome, reveals small migrations shaped Central Europe
A large genetic study of early medieval burials in southern Germany is changing how historians describe the end of Roman rule in Central Europe...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/fall-of-rome-small-migrations-central-europe/
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Ancient DNA study rewrites fall of Rome, reveals small migrations shaped Central Europe
A large genetic study of early medieval burials in southern Germany is changing how historians describe the end of Roman rule in Central Europe...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/fall-of-rome-small-migrations-central-europe/
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Ancient DNA study rewrites fall of Rome, reveals small migrations shaped Central Europe
A large genetic study of early medieval burials in southern Germany is changing how historians describe the end of Roman rule in Central Europe...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/fall-of-rome-small-migrations-central-europe/
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Earliest shipwreck in Singapore reveals 14th century trading port and massive ceramic cargo
A four-year maritime excavation off the coast of Singapore has produced the earliest known shipwreck in the country’s waters and strong evidence of a busy trading port in the 14th century. The vessel, known as the Temasek Wreck, sank sometime between 1340 and 1352...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/earliest-shipwreck-in-singapore-trading-port/
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Earliest shipwreck in Singapore reveals 14th century trading port and massive ceramic cargo
A four-year maritime excavation off the coast of Singapore has produced the earliest known shipwreck in the country’s waters and strong evidence of a busy trading port in the 14th century. The vessel, known as the Temasek Wreck, sank sometime between 1340 and 1352...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/earliest-shipwreck-in-singapore-trading-port/
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Earliest shipwreck in Singapore reveals 14th century trading port and massive ceramic cargo
A four-year maritime excavation off the coast of Singapore has produced the earliest known shipwreck in the country’s waters and strong evidence of a busy trading port in the 14th century. The vessel, known as the Temasek Wreck, sank sometime between 1340 and 1352...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/earliest-shipwreck-in-singapore-trading-port/
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Earliest shipwreck in Singapore reveals 14th century trading port and massive ceramic cargo
A four-year maritime excavation off the coast of Singapore has produced the earliest known shipwreck in the country’s waters and strong evidence of a busy trading port in the 14th century. The vessel, known as the Temasek Wreck, sank sometime between 1340 and 1352...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/earliest-shipwreck-in-singapore-trading-port/
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Earliest shipwreck in Singapore reveals 14th century trading port and massive ceramic cargo
A four-year maritime excavation off the coast of Singapore has produced the earliest known shipwreck in the country’s waters and strong evidence of a busy trading port in the 14th century. The vessel, known as the Temasek Wreck, sank sometime between 1340 and 1352...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/earliest-shipwreck-in-singapore-trading-port/
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Historic cannon unearthed during Hull’s Queen’s Gardens restoration in England
Construction workers uncovered a large cast-iron cannon while restoring Queen’s Gardens in Hull. The cannon appeared on 13 February when CR Reynolds contractors were digging for a water storage tank...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/historic-cannon-hull-s-queen-s-gardens/
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Historic cannon unearthed during Hull’s Queen’s Gardens restoration in England
Construction workers uncovered a large cast-iron cannon while restoring Queen’s Gardens in Hull. The cannon appeared on 13 February when CR Reynolds contractors were digging for a water storage tank...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/historic-cannon-hull-s-queen-s-gardens/
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Historic cannon unearthed during Hull’s Queen’s Gardens restoration in England
Construction workers uncovered a large cast-iron cannon while restoring Queen’s Gardens in Hull. The cannon appeared on 13 February when CR Reynolds contractors were digging for a water storage tank...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/historic-cannon-hull-s-queen-s-gardens/
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Historic cannon unearthed during Hull’s Queen’s Gardens restoration in England
Construction workers uncovered a large cast-iron cannon while restoring Queen’s Gardens in Hull. The cannon appeared on 13 February when CR Reynolds contractors were digging for a water storage tank...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/historic-cannon-hull-s-queen-s-gardens/
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Historic cannon unearthed during Hull’s Queen’s Gardens restoration in England
Construction workers uncovered a large cast-iron cannon while restoring Queen’s Gardens in Hull. The cannon appeared on 13 February when CR Reynolds contractors were digging for a water storage tank...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/historic-cannon-hull-s-queen-s-gardens/
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7,000-year-old beaver bone pit discovered in Germany reveals Neolithic fur hunting practices
Archaeologists in central Germany have uncovered an unusual 7,000-year-old pit packed with beaver bones, offering a rare look at hunting practices and clothing materials used by some of Europe’s earliest farming communities...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/7000-year-old-beaver-bone-pit-in-germany/
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7,000-year-old beaver bone pit discovered in Germany reveals Neolithic fur hunting practices
Archaeologists in central Germany have uncovered an unusual 7,000-year-old pit packed with beaver bones, offering a rare look at hunting practices and clothing materials used by some of Europe’s earliest farming communities...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/7000-year-old-beaver-bone-pit-in-germany/
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7,000-year-old beaver bone pit discovered in Germany reveals Neolithic fur hunting practices
Archaeologists in central Germany have uncovered an unusual 7,000-year-old pit packed with beaver bones, offering a rare look at hunting practices and clothing materials used by some of Europe’s earliest farming communities...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/7000-year-old-beaver-bone-pit-in-germany/
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7,000-year-old beaver bone pit discovered in Germany reveals Neolithic fur hunting practices
Archaeologists in central Germany have uncovered an unusual 7,000-year-old pit packed with beaver bones, offering a rare look at hunting practices and clothing materials used by some of Europe’s earliest farming communities...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/7000-year-old-beaver-bone-pit-in-germany/
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7,000-year-old beaver bone pit discovered in Germany reveals Neolithic fur hunting practices
Archaeologists in central Germany have uncovered an unusual 7,000-year-old pit packed with beaver bones, offering a rare look at hunting practices and clothing materials used by some of Europe’s earliest farming communities...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/7000-year-old-beaver-bone-pit-in-germany/
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New study reveals how Londoners used weekly death data to survive the Great Plague of 1665
A study in Accounting History examines how Londoners relied on weekly death totals during the Great Plague of 1665 and how those figures shaped both private choices and public policy...More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/weekly-death-data-of-the-plague-london/
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New study reveals how Londoners used weekly death data to survive the Great Plague of 1665
A study in Accounting History examines how Londoners relied on weekly death totals during the Great Plague of 1665 and how those figures shaped both private choices and public policy...More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/weekly-death-data-of-the-plague-london/
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New study reveals how Londoners used weekly death data to survive the Great Plague of 1665
A study in Accounting History examines how Londoners relied on weekly death totals during the Great Plague of 1665 and how those figures shaped both private choices and public policy...More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/weekly-death-data-of-the-plague-london/
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New study reveals how Londoners used weekly death data to survive the Great Plague of 1665
A study in Accounting History examines how Londoners relied on weekly death totals during the Great Plague of 1665 and how those figures shaped both private choices and public policy...More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/weekly-death-data-of-the-plague-london/
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New study reveals how Londoners used weekly death data to survive the Great Plague of 1665
A study in Accounting History examines how Londoners relied on weekly death totals during the Great Plague of 1665 and how those figures shaped both private choices and public policy...More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/weekly-death-data-of-the-plague-london/
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Neolithic study finds gender roles in Europe were distinct yet remarkably flexible
Researchers have examined 125 adult skeletons from two Neolithic sites in eastern Hungary to study how work, daily routines, and burial customs related to gender. The sites, Polgár-Ferenci-hát, dated to about 5300 to 5070 BCE, and Polgár-Csőszhalom, dated to about 4800 to 4650 BCE...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/gender-roles-in-europe-were-distinct/
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3D metrological analysis connects dispersed Egyptian artifacts and recovers their lost histories
Researchers have developed a new method to reconnect fragmented Egyptian funerary objects with their original context by analyzing precise measurements and three-dimensional surface data...More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/3d-metrological-analysis-of-dispersed-egyptian-artifacts/
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Ancient cremation pyre uncovered at Sizewell site in England reveals rare prehistoric burial ritual
Archaeologists working at the Sizewell C excavation in Suffolk have uncovered the remains of an ancient cremation pyre at Goose Hill. Finds like this are uncommon because funeral pyres were built above ground and often disappeared after centuries of farming, erosion, and later activity.More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/04/cremation-pyre-at-sizewell-site-in-england/
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Second Temple period stone vessel workshop unearthed on Mount Scopus after antiquities theft arrests
A large stone vessel workshop from the Second Temple period has come to light on the eastern slopes of Mount Scopus in Jerusalem after authorities arrested a group suspected of looting antiquities...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/second-temple-stone-vessel-workshop-jerusalem/
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10,000 years of rock art discovered at Umm Arak Plateau in Egypt’s southern Sinai
Archaeologists working in Egypt’s southern Sinai have identified a large rock shelter on the Umm Arak Plateau that preserves nearly 10,000 years of human activity. The site lies about 5 kilometers northeast of the Temple of Serabit el-Khadim and near ancient copper and turquoise mining zones..
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/10000-years-of-rock-art-in-southern-sinai/
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Ancient mass grave in Jordan confirms victims of Justinian Plague pandemic
A mass grave uncovered in the ancient city of Jerash in modern-day Jordan is offering new evidence of how one of history’s earliest pandemics reshaped life and death in the Byzantine world. Researchers have confirmed the burial as the first biomolecularly verified plague mass grave from the First Pandemic...More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/04/ancient-mass-grave-in-jordan-justinian-plague/
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Drone surveys reveal Roman forum and previously unknown monumental theater at Fioccaglia
Archaeologists working at the Roman site of Fioccaglia in Flumeri, in the province of Avellino, have mapped a forum and a previously unknown theater along the Appian Way. The results redefine the scale of the settlement and confirm its importance within Rome’s road network.More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/roman-forum-and-theater-at-fioccaglia/
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How Nile River stability shaped the rise of ancient Napata in Sudan’s Kushite kingdom
The ancient city of Napata in present-day Sudan stood for centuries as a center of power in the Kushite kingdom. New research links this long history to changes in the Nile River and the land around Jebel Barkal, where the city took shape...More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/04/nile-river-and-the-rise-of-ancient-napata/
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3,400-year-old Nördlingen bronze sword reveals advanced metalworking techniques
In 2023, archaeologists excavating a grave in Nördlingen, Swabia, recovered a bronze sword dating to the Middle Bronze Age, more than 3,400 years ago. The weapon belongs to the rare group of octagonal swords known from southern Germany...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/nordlingen-bronze-sword-metalworking-techniques/
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2,000-year-old Vietnamese tooth blackening practice found in Iron Age burial
Archaeologists at the Dong Xa site in northern Vietnam have identified the earliest direct evidence of intentional tooth blackening in the country...More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/iron-age-tooth-blackening-vietnam/
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Ancient Roman shipwreck reveals hidden secrets of waterproofing and Mediterranean repairs
A Roman ship that sank about 2,200 years ago off the coast of present-day Croatia has offered new evidence about how ancient crews protected their vessels at sea...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/04/roman-shipwreck-secrets-of-waterproofing/
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AI reconstructs face of Pompeii victim killed in Mount Vesuvius eruption
Archaeologists working at Pompeii have introduced a new digital reconstruction of a man who died during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/04/ai-reconstructs-face-of-pompeii-victim/
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Rare Roman staircase and unique lararium discovered beneath Cologne’s MiQua Jewish Museum site
Construction linked to the future MiQua Jewish Museum in Cologne has brought to light a group of Roman structures preserved in rare condition...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/roman-staircase-and-unique-lararium-cologne/
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Rich medieval Christians buried ‘closer to God’ even with leprosy or tuberculosis, archaeologists find
Medieval cemeteries in Denmark show how social rank shaped burial choices. Plots near church walls or inside church buildings cost more and signaled wealth, family ties, or religious standing. A research team used grave location as a measure of status...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/rich-medieval-christians-denmark-leprosy/
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Why bison hunters abandoned a long-used site 1,100 years ago due to severe droughts
For thousands of years, Indigenous hunters on the North American Great Plains relied on bison for food, tools, and materials. Hunting practices shifted across time and landscape, with groups moving between kill sites based on need, season, and local conditions. New research ...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/bison-hunters-abandoned-a-site-due-to-droughts/
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Rare 3rd century terracotta female head discovered at Magna Roman Fort near Hadrian’s Wall
Archaeologists working at Magna Roman Fort near Hadrian’s Wall have uncovered a small terracotta head from the third century CE. The object came from fill inside a defensive ditch along the fort’s northern edge. The head measures 78 millimeters high and 67 millimeters wide...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/rare-roman-terracotta-head-magna-fort/
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Arctic’s first inhabitants reached Greenland’s High Arctic by sea 4,500 years ago
Archaeological work on the Kitsissut islands in northern Greenland shows Early Paleo-Inuit groups reached offshore environments around 4,500 years ago through planned sea travel. The sites sit far from the mainland within Pikialasorsuaq, a large polynya where open water persists year round between Greenland and Canada...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/arctics-first-inhabitants-4500-years-ago/
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Great Basin cave burials not rare or uncommon, study finds
Archaeologists have reexamined long-held ideas about burial practices in the Great Basin and found a broader pattern than earlier reports suggested. A study in American Antiquity compares cave and rockshelter burials in the lower Lahontan drainage basin of western Nevada with those in the neighboring Bonneville Basin of western Utah...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/great-basin-cave-burials-not-rare/
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New 3D method maps Paleolithic engravings at Cova Matutano
Researchers from Universitat Jaume I, the University of Barcelona, and ICREA tested a digital method to study very fine engravings on Late Paleolithic portable art. Their work focused on three objects from Cova Matutano in eastern Spain...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/paleolithic-engravings-at-cova-matutano/
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Rare deer skull headdress discovered in Germany highlights exchange between hunter-gatherers and Europe’s first farmers
Archaeologists working at the Early Neolithic settlement of Eilsleben in Saxony-Anhalt have uncovered evidence of close contact between Europe’s first farming communities and local hunter-gatherers...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/deer-skull-headdress-discovered-in-germany/
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Lost infant burial grounds in Ireland rediscovered through folklore and archaeology study
A study by archaeologist Marion Dowd at Atlantic Technological University examines Ireland’s cillíní, burial grounds used for infants who were stillborn, were miscarried, or died at birth without baptism...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/lost-infant-burial-grounds-in-ireland-rediscovered/
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Scents of ancient Egypt: tracing embalming recipes by analyzing air around mummies
Anyone who has stood near an ancient Egyptian mummy notices a persistent musty odor. Researchers once linked this smell to age and decay. New chemical work shows a different cause. The odor forms from a complex mix of volatile organic compounds released by embalming materials and preserved tissues...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/scents-of-mummies-embalming-recipes/