Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution A recent study found lead in teeth from 2 million-year-old hominin […]
Category: anthropology
Neolithic people took gruesome trophies from invading tribes
A local Neolithic community in northeastern France may have clashed with foreign invaders, cutting off limbs as war trophies and […]
Incan numerical recordkeeping system may have been widely used
Women in STEM: Inca Edition In the late 1500s, a few decades after the khipu in this recent study was […]
Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis
Some stone tools found near a river on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that the first hominins had reached […]
Did a rival tribe kill and eat their neighbors 5,700 years ago?
Credit: IPHES-CERCA/Luis Quevedo/Madrid Scientific Films. Human remains from 11 individuals recovered from El Mirador Cave in Spain showed evidence of […]
Fermented meat with a side of maggots: A new look at the Neanderthal diet
Traditionally, Indigenous peoples almost universally viewed thoroughly putrefied, maggot-infested animal foods as highly desirable fare, not starvation rations. In fact, […]
Ancient skull may have been half human, half Neanderthal child
The mandible had been separated from the skeleton, and both it and the neurocranium are incomplete, so they were reconstructed […]
45-hour voyage in replica canoe tests Paleolithic migration theory
(Left) GPS tracking and modeling of ocean currents toward the end of the experimental voyage. (Right) The team on the […]
We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew
It’s a Denisovan? Always has been. After years of mystery, we now know what at least one Denisovan looked like. […]
Only elites used hallucinogens in ancient Andes society
Skip to content Snuff tubes and spoons unearthed at Chavín de Huántar in Peru had traces of vilca and nicotine. […]