Credit: IPHES-CERCA/Luis Quevedo/Madrid Scientific Films. Human remains from 11 individuals recovered from El Mirador Cave in Spain showed evidence of […]
Category: anthropology
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. […]
Prehistoric bone tool cache suggests advanced reasoning in early hominins
A prehistoric bone tool “factory” Credit: CSIC Bone tools shaped by knapping, however, were much rarer until about 500,000 years […]
Skull long thought to be Cleopatra’s sister’s was actually a young boy
Scientists have demonstrated that an ancient human skull excavated from a tomb at Ephesos was not that of Arsinoë IV, […]
Inside the hands-on lab of an experimental archaeologist
Reverse-engineering the Stone Age Beyond flint-knapping and tossing spears with atlatls, Kent State University’s Metin Eren has a vision for […]