Traditionally, Indigenous peoples almost universally viewed thoroughly putrefied, maggot-infested animal foods as highly desirable fare, not starvation rations. In fact, […]
Category: anthropology
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 […]