A hive of honeybees on display at the annual Vermont Farm Show in Essex Junction, Vt. (AP Photo/Andy Duback, File) (CN) — A fresh look into ancient pottery fragments has revealed the earliest known ...

Honey was the first sweetener used by humankind—and thanks to a new discovery, we now have proof that ancient people in sub-Saharan African were eating it as early as 3,500 years ago. Archaeologists ...

This discovery, researchers noted, contributes to “ethnomathematics,” a field that explores mathematics through culture.

Scraps of pottery often litter archaeological sites. Akin to today’s ubiquitous plastic, earthenware is “the nonbiodegradable polymer of the ancient world,” says biogeochemist Richard Evershed, ...

A team of scientists has found the first evidence for ancient honey hunting, locked inside pottery fragments from prehistoric West Africa, dating back some 3,500 years ago. A team of scientists, led ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Pottery near Mount Ararat suggests ancient human activity, renewing scientific debate over a site long linked to Noah’s Ark.

In this, the 20th anniversary year of the first public Collier Lodge archaeological dig on the banks of the Kankakee River in Kouts, the finds are still being unearthed. And while the historical ...

Featuring a pottery bowl adorned with an indescribable motif, a set of pottery artifacts debuted at the Chinese Archaeological Museum in Beijing on Wednesday. These relics look surprisingly modern, ...

A machine learns to categorize pottery comparable to expert archaeologists, matches designs among thousands of broken pieces. Archaeologists at Northern Arizona University are hoping a new technology ...

Ceramics are one of the most important sources of information for archaeologists. Yet how these objects are produced, especially in the firing stage, has received little attention to date. The ...

Some of the earliest artistic expressions of botanical motifs could indicate that humans developed mathematical and geometric thinking thousands of years before they could write out their calculations ...