Anthropology Early humans intentionally made baseball-sized spheres — and we’re not sure why September 8, 2023
Anthropology A 5000 year-old male leader in Copper Age Spain turns out to be a woman. She was the most powerful leader in the region July 11, 2023
Anthropology The myth of man the hunter: women in foraging societies also hunt. They like to do it their own way June 30, 2023
Anthropology Ancient human relatives may have engaged in cannibalism 1.45 million years ago June 30, 2023
Anthropology Bones, the ‘Cave of the Monkeys’ and 86,000 years of history: new evidence pushes back the timing of human arrival in Southeast Asia June 16, 2023
Anthropology Scientists determine the composition of the earliest Roman perfume. It smells like patchouli June 5, 2023
Anthropology How we got our big brains — missing genetic information and a stroke of luck May 8, 2023
Anthropology Vikings fashion: they filed their teeth, had female warriors and loved bling May 22, 2023
Anthropology Is this man holding his penis the world’s oldest depiction of a narrative scene? February 20, 2023
Anthropology Viking warriors arrived in England alongside their trusty dogs and horses February 3, 2023
Anthropology Human ancestors may have sailed across the Mediterranean sea half a million years ago January 9, 2023
Anthropology Neanderthals were the first to artificially transform the world, turning a forest into grassland nearly 125,000 years ago December 5, 2022
Anthropology The pandemic wrecked the social lives of school kids in the world’s poor countries November 30, 2022
Anthropology This 780,000-year-old fish dinner is the oldest evidence of cooking using controlled fire November 16, 2022
Anthropology Ancient peoples in South America had both Denisovan and Neanderthal DNA — and we have no clue how it got there February 17, 2023
Anthropology We’ve gotten our first, ‘exciting’ glimpse of a Neanderthal community — and they were pretty inbred October 20, 2022
Anthropology Stone-age people colonized rainforests by developing tool miniaturization October 18, 2022
Anthropology Drone maps show one of the first cities in Mesopotamia was like an ancient Venice October 17, 2022
Anthropology Modern humans and Neanderthals could have coexisted in Western Europe and borrowed technology from each other October 15, 2022
Anthropology Ancient Taiwan was inhabited by ‘short, dark-skinned’ people that also populated South Africa October 11, 2022
Anthropology This facial reconstruction shows what a Paleolithic teenage girl looked like more than 30,000 years ago October 1, 2022
Anthropology Ancient tooth found in Georgia tells us of the first human species to come into Europe September 12, 2022
Anthropology A 31,000-year-old leg amputation in Borneo may be world’s oldest surgery September 8, 2022
Anthropology Chewing surprisingly burns a lot of calories and likely shaped our ancestors’ faces March 16, 2023
Anthropology What can 65,000-year-old ‘stone Swiss Army knives’ tell us about the lives of ancient humans? June 24, 2022
Agriculture The unlikely story of how humans domesticated chicken — and how rice played a key role in this June 7, 2022
Anthropology Ancient Neanderthal cave in Spain with thousands of wall paintings was used for over 50,000 years June 3, 2022
Anthropology Life before Stonehenge: hunter-gatherers enjoyed the open woodland for thousands of years April 28, 2022
Anthropology Some 15,000 years ago, a prehistoric culture created intricate art by firelight April 21, 2022
Anthropology Smelling the past: researchers reconstruct how ancient societies would have smelled like March 30, 2022
