A network of large granite blocks lying on the seabed off Sein Island in Brittany, France, has been identified as a constructed stone settlement dating to the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, roughly ...

A small discovery that sparked big questions later in the history of America. In 1957, a local resident discovered an odd-looking coin while digging at a nearby shell midden on the coast of Maine.

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Since first exiting Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago, Homo sapiens have transformed landscapes in a surprising number of ways. Cities ...

I am currently reading The Big Oyster: History on the half shell, a chronicle of New York City told through its renowned oyster beds. Even though I am a local, I was only vaguely aware of the city’s ...

Visitors come from all over the globe to see Charleston’s beautiful, centuries-old historic buildings. Yet very few people — even locals — ever make the half-hour drive to Awendaw to see what may be ...

We've feasted on them, built economies around them and in some places nearly erased them from our coasts. Today, 85% of the world's oyster reefs are gone. Many fisheries are collapsing, and those in ...

Construction crews have uncovered a shell midden while excavating a site for a new subdivision on Wrangell Island. Middens are ancient sites made up of shells and other remains. They can help tell the ...

In an intriguing discovery, the remains of an African man who died just 350 years ago have been found buried in a prehistoric shell midden in Amoreira in Portugal. The middens in Amoreira and other ...

Gandhinagar, (Gujarat), August 05, 2025 (ANI): Scientists claim that the archaeological findings from Gujarat's Kachchh reveal evidence of human presence dating back 9,000 to 9,500 years. This is a ...

When John and Stephanie Brighton purchased their home on a shady road in South Forest Beach, they knew that new houses were going to be developed on their street. If the new houses simply meant more ...