prehistoric Archives

8,000-Year-Old Discoveries at Turkey’s Enigmatic Çatalhöyük Site Reveal “More than Just Blood Relations” Driving Ancient Kinship

Ryan Whalen·April 14, 2026

Investigating questions of kinship, archaeologists discovered that treating non-blood relatives as family goes back to the ancient past.

Austin Burgess·December 30, 2025

New research shows that fossilized dinosaur eggshells can be used to help scientists more precisely date prehistoric nesting sites.

Austin Burgess·December 20, 2025

Large prehistoric marine reptiles known as mosasaurs dominated the oceans until their extinction 66 million years ago.

Tim McMillan·October 21, 2025

Archaeologists uncover prehistoric Megastructures in Slovenia’s Karst Plateau, revealing previously unknown ancient European ingenuity.

Ryan Whalen·June 9, 2025

New findings suggest ancient humans in the Near East used fire to smoke meat, rather than cook it, preserving and protecting it from animals.

Ryan Whalen·March 5, 2025

A prehistoric "factory" discovered in Tanzania pushes human ancestor bone tool-making back by over a million years from earlier estimates.