Other July stories: Solving a 150-year-old fossil mystery and the physics of tacking a sailboat. 150-year-old fossil of Palaeocampa anthrax […]
Tag: Archaeology
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 […]
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 […]