The explosion in commercial archaeology has brought a flood of information. The problem now is figuring out how to find and use this unpublished literature, reports Matt Ford. Archaeologists are used ...

Whenever someone learns that I am an archaeologist, whether it’s at a party, a conference, or even when I saw a new doctor last week, there is an almost inevitable follow up question: “You’re an ...

Donald Whitcomb was a pioneering scholar in the field of Islamic archaeology, who investigated its history through numerous excavations across the Middle East while also training generations of ...

The archaeology of the Roman period has traditionally been focused on monumental aspects, but very little is known about what the daily life of peasantry was like. An investigation by the Universidad ...

Tens of thousands of artefacts were unearthed not by careful excavation but by the 2011 floods. Now, students are piecing together Queensland’s history Follow our Australia news live blog for latest ...

Tephrochronology is a powerful method through which sedimentary successions can be dated and synchronized via geochemical and geochronological ...