That was the case recently when a remarkable discovery from the Copper Age was made during an otherwise routine dig for a new ...

Called skeleton plotting, it offers other advantages as well. Every tree-ring sample contains a record for every year of growth. That's an awful lot of information, especially if what you want to ...

The Vikings gave shape to the hull using this "clinker" technique rather than the more conventional method of first building an inner skeleton for the hull. Discovered in Norway in 1906 ...