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Keyword - Archaeology

- Oldest American artefact unearthed - Premium content
  
  Oregon caves yield evidence of continent's first inhabitants.
  
  5 November 2009
- Uproar over Palestinian archaeology congress - Premium content
  
  Dearth of Israeli researchers attending provokes accusations of bias.
  
  19 August 2009
- Earliest evidence for pottery making found - Premium content
  
  Fragments from a Chinese cave push back the dawn of the craft by more than 1,000 years.
  
  1 June 2009
- Q&A: Mapping the world's oldest submerged town - Premium content
  
  Underwater archaeologist Jon Henderson is hoping to reveal the secrets of the ancient Greek town of Pavlopetri.
  
  18 May 2009
- Scientists in bone battle - Premium content
  
  Native Americans lay claim to 10,000-year-old skeletons.
  
  18 March 2009
- Rethinking silk's origins - Premium content
  
  Did the Indian subcontinent start spinning without Chinese know-how?
  
  17 February 2009
- Downturn hits Chicago's natural history museum - Premium content
  
  Staff and science cut as museum's endowments crash.
  
  23 December 2008
- Georgian science pays price of conflict - Premium content
  
  Conflict with Russia puts reforms in jeopardy.
  
  26 August 2008
- Back when the desert was green - Premium content
  
  Burial site offers rare glimpse of daily life in the stone-age Sahara.
  
  14 August 2008
- Archaeology: The lost world - Premium content
  
  Armed with a map depicting a 10,000-year-old landscape submerged beneath the North Sea and fresh evidence from nearby sites, archaeologists are realizing that early humans were more territorial than was previously thought. Laura Spinney reports.
  
  9 July 2008