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Rural Child Labor Left Deeper Marks on Dutch Children’s Spines Than Factory Work Did
A new analysis of 143 skeletons from three post-medieval Dutch communities finds the heaviest spinal wear in a dairy village, not in the mills.
44:35
Why the Rainbow Serpents of Awunbarna Got Bigger After Europeans Arrived
Twenty of western Arnhem Land’s largest painted Ancestral Beings cluster inside 27 square kilometres of Amurdak Country, and the team that recorded them…
45:33
Sesame and Moringa Proteins Turn Up in Ancient Egyptian Paint Layers
Twenty-eight microsamples from fourteen artworks also yield glue made from cattle, sheep or goat, donkey, horse, and possibly antelope, with no…
23:17
Cacao DNA in Etowah Pottery Puts Chocolate in the Mississippian World
Ancient DNA from two 900-year-old sherds in Georgia does what residue chemistry could not.
29:50
Human Activity Patterns Look More Like a Lemur’s Than a Gibbon’s
A new comparative analysis of Hadza actigraphy argues that Homo sapiens keeps diurnal physiology while running a far looser 24-hour schedule than the…
29:08
Murujuga’s Rock Art Damage Points to Sulfur Emissions That Peaked Decades Ago
New monitoring finds the rain there isn’t acidic, that rock surface pH was measuring the weather rather than the air, and that the clearest damage…
52:12
What Teeth Remember: Ancient Dental Plaque and the Diets of Premodern Osaka’s Commoners
Proteomic analysis of calculus from eight Umeda Cemetery burials finds salmon from the far north, luxury sea bream, meat eaten under official…
33:04
A Human Tooth, Drilled and Worn, From Late Neolithic Serbia
Misfiled as an animal bead for nearly twenty years, a perforated human canine turns out to be the only reliably documented human-tooth ornament from the…
25:23
Fake Kilns, Real Terrain: Training AI to Find Sites That Barely Exist
A Louisiana lidar study used simulated archaeological objects to train a detection model, found its targets, and then discovered they weren't what…
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Ten Thousand Years in the High Pyrenees: What a New Radiocarbon Database Can and Can’t Say
An open dataset from Catalonia’s Aigüestortes park tracks human presence in the alpine zone across the whole Holocene, and is unusually honest about the…
28:05
The Obsidian Arrows That Told Stories Before Written Language; A New Look at Neolithic Artifacts from Central Anatolia
A new study begins decoding unexplained marks on ancient Anatolian arrowheads.
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Two Neanderthal Pelvises Suggest the Obstetrical Dilemma Was Never About Walking
A toddler from Syria and a young woman from Spain, digitally reassembled, point toward pelvic floor stability rather than locomotion as the constraint…
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