Gazelle prepared “a la Amud,” or “a la Kebara”? Neanderthals at Kebara had pretty broad tastes in meat. The butchered […]
Tag: Archaeology
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 […]
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 […]
This archaeologist built a replica boat to sail like the Vikings
“On we sweep with threshing oar” Greer Jarrett has identified four possible small ports, or “havens,” used by Vikings along […]
New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory
Skip to content Results are consistent with two earlier studies dating the footprints to between 22,000 and 24,000 years ago. […]
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. […]
Are Dead Sea Scrolls older than we thought?
Enter Enoch The authors of this latest paper wanted to find a better means than paleography alone for determining the […]
Research roundup: 7 stories we almost missed
Ping-pong bots, drumming chimps, picking styles of two jazz greats, and an ancient underground city’s soundscape Time lapse photos show […]