Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution A recent study found lead in teeth from 2 million-year-old hominin […]
Tag: Archaeology
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 […]
Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed
Other July stories: Solving a 150-year-old fossil mystery and the physics of tacking a sailboat. 150-year-old fossil of Palaeocampa anthrax […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]