Even those factors might not have been sufficient, but the authors also identified three possible catalysts. In 2014, five adult […]
Category: anthropology
Ice Age dice show early Native Americans may have understood probability
Madden was able to conclusively identify 565 Native American dice from 45 different sites and designate an additional 94 artifacts […]
Monte Verde site gets a new date, but the big picture doesn’t change
layers of debate (and debate about layers) Monte Verde site gets a new date, but the big picture doesn’t change […]
Never mind Band-Aids, Neanderthals had antiseptic birch tar
Our view of Neanderthal life keeps getting more complex and vibrant. This replica shows how Neanderthals might have used birch […]
Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans
The results: The team found traces of wild grasses and legumes, fruits or berries, green vegetables, and roots and tubers […]
“Million-year-old” fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans
careful with that, it’s an antique The revised age may help make sense of 2-million-year-old stone tools elsewhere in China. […]
This 67,800-year-old hand stencil is the world’s oldest human-made art
generative AI could never The world’s oldest art has an unintentional story to tell about human exploration. These 17,000-year-old hand […]
These 60,000-year-old poison arrows are oldest yet found
Poisoned arrows or darts have long been used by cultures all over the world for hunting or warfare. For example, […]
We have a fossil closer to our split with Neanderthals and Denisovans
The Casablanca fossils are about the same age as hominin fossils from Spain, which belong to a species called Homo […]
Earliest African cremation was 9,500 years ago
Archaeologists have discovered Africa’s oldest known cremation pyre at the base of Mount Hora in Malawi. According to a paper […]