ARCHAEOLOGY

Bison arrived in North America via the Bering Land Bridge and had dispersed across the continent within 20,000 years.

The skull belonged to an ancestor of humans and Neanderthals.

Platinum detected at prehistoric Clovis sites is thought to be of meteorite origin.

Eight-metre statue of legendary Egyptian ruler is thought to be more than 3,000 years old.

Archaeologists have also found pieces of statues representing goddess Sekhmet.

Ancient dental plaque of Neanderthals reveals how they used plants as medicine 50,000 years ago.

The first regional analysis of Aboriginal genetic history will be used to construct genealogies and repatriate artefacts.

Little is known about how and when the Silk Route emerged but this study offers new clues on the subject.

European Neanderthals feasted on mammoth in the north but southerners ate no meat at all.

Irregularities in skulls can be used to judge how closely related populations were.

Buena Vista hypothesis says ancient fish spotted prey on river banks, encouraging them to move from their aquatic habitat onto land.

The ornate burial garment was decorated with sea shells and the teeth of red deer.

The US-backed Iraqi forces have reconquered Mosul's central bank, along with museum looted by jihadis in 2014.

Burials were found in the main chamber of one of the region's largest dolmens.

New findings point to the Roman structure being used as a fortress in the 12th century.

People minded for iron and lead since the Stone Age in Poland.

Analysis of 4,300-year-old mammoth fossil from Wrangel Island shows excess of detrimental mutations.

The patterns of trees growing in the Amazon are 'ancient footprints' of the communities that cultivated them hundreds of years ago.

Water pumping is not immediately threatening the monument, but decades of accumulated impact is.

The species, Anchiornis, already had drumstick-shaped legs and bird-like footpads.

The pendant, discovered in a remote area of southern Belize, was worn during religious rituals by Maya rulers.

The document is a census of the land that conquistador Hernando Cortés was awarded by the Spanish king.

A VR version of the court will be recreated to conduct planned digs over two years.

Pointillist techniques were identified in ancient artworks found in rock shelters in France.

Dedicated to the god Mithra, it is the first ever discovered on the island.

Fours individuals had been buried at a medieval site in a crouched position.

First humans to people South America share a last common ancestor with modern-day northeast Asian populations.

A new species of an extinct giant worm was found to have terrifyingly large snapping jaws.

Mitochondrial DNA from nine elite burials reveal the same maternal lineage.