Women in STEM: Inca Edition In the late 1500s, a few decades after the khipu in this recent study was […]
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Local cuisine was on the menu at Cafe Neanderthal
Gazelle prepared “a la Amud,” or “a la Kebara”? Neanderthals at Kebara had pretty broad tastes in meat. The butchered […]
Oldest wooden tools in East Asia may have come from any of three species
That leaves a few possibilities: Denisovans, Homo heidelbergensis (the common ancestor of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and our species), or Homo erectus. […]
A mammoth tusk boomerang from Poland is 40,000 years old
This left distal phalanx was found not far from the mammoth tusk boomerang. Credit: Talamo et al. 2025 What about […]
Painted altar in Maya city of Tikal reveals aftermath of ancient coup
It’s always about colonialism The altar marks the presence of an enclave of foreign elites from Teotihuacan. This rendering shows […]