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What Stone Walls Remember: Craft, Memory, and Defiance Among Zimbabwe’s Displaced
A new study of forcibly relocated flood victims in southern Zimbabwe finds that the way people build and make things is also how they resist, and how…
46:23
Pigeon Domestication Is Nearly a Thousand Years Older Than We Thought
New zooarchaeological and isotopic analysis from Late Bronze Age Cyprus pushes back the direct evidence by almost a millennium.
49:23
A Child Buried at the Edge of Britain, 11,000 Years Ago
A cave in Cumbria holds the oldest human remains ever found in northern Britain — and the bones belong to a girl who died before she turned four.
17:30
The Whalers of Corpse Point: What Melting Permafrost Is Erasing, and What Bones Remember
A burial ground in the High Arctic is disappearing — and the skeletons it holds tell a story of an industry that wore young men to nothing
19:12
What Teeth Know: Plant Eating, Zinc Isotopes, and the Deep Roots of Agriculture in Sri Lanka
A new isotopic method shows that hunter-gatherers in Sri Lankan rainforest caves were steadily shifting toward plant-heavy diets millennia before…
19:55
Inequality Fell as Mohenjo-daro Grew
New Gini analysis of Bronze Age house sizes shows the Indus city became more egalitarian over four centuries, not less
19:14
Thirty-Seven People in One Stone Jar
A densely packed burial vessel in northern Laos reveals death as a multigenerational process, not a single event
21:43
They Knew When to Go to the Shore
Isotope analysis of Spanish cave shells shows Neanderthals harvested shellfish seasonally 115,000 years ago, mirroring the preferences of later modern…
16:48
The Thousand-Year Hedge
Eastern Africa’s first herders kept livestock and kept fishing, hunting, and foraging for at least a millennium. A new isotopic study explains why.
17:49
Buried and Fed for Five Centuries: The Millennium-Old Dingo Burial on the Baaka
An excavation in New South Wales reveals the world's first evidence of a post-burial animal feeding practice and the Darling River's first dated dingo…
18:35
Why Humans Are Right-Handed: Walking Upright May Have Started It, and Brain Growth Finished the Job
A new phylogenetic analysis across 41 primate species traces the deep evolutionary origins of the most lopsided behavioral bias in the animal kingdom
14:34
The Bag Before the Bowl: Pleistocene Origins of Mobile Container Technology
A new database of 739 ancient containers pushes the story of carrying technology back half a million years — and reveals how much of that story has…
17:36
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