The first Roman fort with wooden defenses was discovered in Germany For the first time, archaeologists have discovered wooden defenses surrounding an ancient Roman military base. The fence topped with sharpened wooden stakes, akin to today’s barbed wire, is the kind of fortification known to have existed from ancient writings—including by Caesar—but no surviving examples …

Evidence of Europe’s first Homo sapiens was found in a French cave Stone artefacts and tooth pre-date the earliest known evidence of the species in Europe by more than 10,000 years. Archaeologists have found evidence that Europe’s first Homo sapiens lived briefly in a rock shelter in southern France — before mysteriously vanishing. A study …

Have France’s First Arrows Been Found? A 54,000-year-old cave site in southern France holds hundreds of tiny stone points, which researchers say closely resemble other known arrowheads — including replicas that they tested on ᴅᴇᴀᴅ goats. The discovery, reported on 22 February in Science Advances1, suggests that the first Homo sapiens to reach Europe hunted with bows and …

New Thoughts on an Unusual Burial in Sardinia The strange facedown burial of a young woman, who likely had a nail driven into her skull around the time she died in Sardinia more than 2,000 years ago, could be the result of ancient beliefs about epilepsy, according to new research. The facedown burial may indicate …

Archaeologists Discover Homes Of The Builders Of Europe’s First Monuments Made 6,400 Years Ago Archaeologists in France have found one of the first residential sites belonging to the prehistoric builders of some of Europe’s first monumental stone structures. During the Neolithic, people in west-central France built many impressive megalithic monuments such as barrows and dolmens. …