African pottery is a rich tradition that has been passed down generations. It is functional as well as artistic. The craft ...

Ancient sources describe similar techniques for producing raisin wines. Columella, a Roman agricultural writer, noted that ...

An ancient DNA study co-authored by Brown archaeologist Peter van Dommelen illustrates the complexity of human migration and ...

“Wild boars were probably attracted to human settlements as people started settling down and began growing their own food,” ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered extraordinary artifacts from an ancient African Christian community ... including jugs and pottery fragments. Archaeologists also found other burial offerings ...

Where the hot and sweltering tropical valleys and bleached coastlines of Papua New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago meet, archaeologists and geneticists have excavated, and resurrected, ancient hum ...

In the thick green depths of the Amazon, long thought to be untouched wilderness, a stunning discovery has emerged. For ...

The discovery, made in the Bogotá Altiplano of Colombia, has complicated the already-debated story of South America’s first ...

Most big collections have only a fraction of their items on display, with the rest locked away in storage. But not at the new ...

TRAILING vibrant pink bougainvillaea frames white-washed buildings, spilling across blue window shutters and doors.  A ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?