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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

The discipline involves surveying, excavation, and eventually analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Read more...

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Historic England's Guides for the Archaeological Sciences

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Diamond Open Access in Archaeology
Tools for Quantitative Archaeology – in R
Open Archaeo: A list of open source archaeological tools and software.
The Open Digital Archaeology Textbook

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The evolving pigment palette of European skin, eyes and hair as seen through ancient DNA (phys.org)

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2,000-Year-Old Bog Body Found In Northern Ireland Was A Young Woman Who Was Decapitated In A Presumed Ritual Sacrifice (allthatsinteresting.com)

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Repatriation to Indigenous groups is more than law, it’s human rights − an archaeologist describes the day that lesson hit home (theconversation.com)

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2,000-year-old spoon from Isle of Man may have been used in blood rituals for fortune telling (www.livescience.com)

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Egypt discovers first royal tomb in over 100 years (abcnews.go.com)

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A Monumental Iron Age Necropolis, with 2.40-Meter-High Stelae and Objects Inlaid with Amber, Discovered in the Center of Trento (www.labrujulaverde.com)

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The 2025 Joan Gero Book Awards – World Archaeological Congress (worldarchaeologicalcongress.com)

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Report documents devastation of ancient city of Palmyra, a World Heritage Site, after the fall of the Assad regime (phys.org)

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Traces of London’s first Roman basilica found beneath office basement (www.heritagedaily.com)

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Archaeologists unearth the remains of a Roman basilica on the site of a new London skyscraper (phys.org)

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500-year-old Transylvanian diaries show how the Little Ice Age completely changed life and death in the region (phys.org)

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Gold jewelry with leopard and tiger designs unearthed in 2,400-year-old burial in Kazakhstan (www.livescience.com)

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Tally of bones, artifacts reveals 2000 years of population swings among Indigenous Americans (www.science.org)

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Evidence of cannibalism by ancient Magdalenian people found in cave in Poland (phys.org)

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Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research (www.nature.com)

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First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2k years (www.bbc.co.uk)

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It's a 10m papyrus scroll from Herculaneum, one of the cities buried by Vesuvius' volcanic ash in 79 CE. It's fully carbonised but they're using a synchrotron to create a 3D model of the scroll without damaging it. Then they're using AI (pattern recognition AI, perhaps?) to detect signs of ink, so they can reconstruct the text itself.

The project lead Stephen Parson claims that they're confident that they "will be able to read pretty much the whole scroll in its entirety". And so far it seems to be a work of philosophy.

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1,900-year-old Roman sanctuary and coin found in flooded Spanish cave (www.livescience.com)

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2,000-Year-Old Chariot Parts Discovered Beneath Welsh Airfield (gizmodo.com)

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Experts Are Alarmed by a Video of Workers Hammering Away at Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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