The search for artifacts focused on an area that was once a large lake during the Pleistocene era. It is a now-dry lakebed crossed by ancient wadis or dry riverbeds. The researchers were able to ...

Lahontan Gold Corp. is a Canadian mine development and mineral exploration company that holds, through its US subsidiaries, four top-tier gold and silver exploration properties in the Walker Lane ...

The forests around the ancient Lake Poso in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province are being lost to mining, oil palm plantations and smallholder farm expansion, threatening both unique species ...

that rained down on settlements near Lake Titicaca sometime between 400CE and 720CE—a period that coincides with the rise of the ancient city of Tiwanaku. “We suggest that this tephra ...

The area was once an ancient lake called Xaltocan and would have been an attractive feeding ground for animals like mammoths. Dozens of mammoth remains have been uncovered around this site over the ...

Pyramid Lake The deep blue and gray Pyramid Lake north of Reno is a remnant of Lake Lahontan, the inland sea that once covered much of Nevada. Home to the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, a visit offers ...

We have encountered a fascinating social media map that illustrates the Greek world through archaeological discoveries. This map, created by a user on Google Maps, spans the Iberian Peninsula to India ...

View of the three-dimensional map on the Ségognole 3 cave floor. Credit: Dr. Médard Thiry Researchers uncovered a 13,000-year-old sandstone model in France’s Ségognole 3 rock shelter, possibly the ...

Symmetrical wave ripples identified with NASA’s Curiosity rover in ancient lake deposits at Gale crater provide a key paleoclimate constraint for early Mars: At the time of ripple formation, climate ...

An enormous water reservoir — likely the largest aquifer of its kind in on Earth — sits inside the volcanic rocks of the Oregon Cascades, scientists have revealed. A hidden reservoir of ...