An unexpectedly large city lies in a sea of grass inhabited largely by nomads. This bronze ax head was found […]
Tag: Archaeology
10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world
“This site reveals an extraordinary story of cultural continuity,” said Braun in a recent press release. When the going gets […]
Wear marks suggest Neanderthals made ocher crayons
“The combination of shaping, wear, and resharpening indicates they were used to draw or mark on soft surfaces,” D’Errico told […]
The first people to set foot in Australia were fossil hunters
I just think they’re neat Europeans weren’t the first people to collect fossils in Australia. Several species of short-faced kangaroos, […]
Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution
Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution A recent study found lead in teeth from 2 million-year-old hominin […]
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 […]