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The Teenage Huntress of the Andes
Rethinking Prehistoric Gender Roles in the Early Americas Through a 9,000-Year-Old Burial
12:55
The Mutation That Traveled Through Time
How an ancient gene variant helped humans survive past pandemics—and shields some today from HIV
13:37
When the Plow Turned the Tables: How Inequality Took Root in Human History
A sweeping new study links the rise of enduring wealth inequality to Neolithic innovations, political centralization, and a waning culture of…
22:23
Flint and Footprints in the Ice
How Upper Paleolithic Foragers Crossed the Pyrenees, Leaving Stone Clues Behind
9:41
A Tin Thread Through Time
How Bronze Age tin from Cornwall connected prehistoric Britain to the heart of the Mediterranean world
10:35
The Priestly Chemistry of Maya Blue: How Ritual and Science Colored an Empire
A newly discovered method of creating Maya blue suggests sacred knowledge and specialized craft shaped the pigment’s enduring mystery
8:41
Smoke and Stone: How Hallucinogens Shaped Power in Ancient Peru
Deep in the high Andes, the Chavín culture turned altered consciousness into a political strategy—crafting social hierarchy through ritual, sensory awe…
7:18
The Stones, the Fire, and the Cave: Neanderthal Lives in the Iranian Highlands
Excavations in the Zagros Mountains reveal a rugged hominin world rich with complexity, survival, and symbolic echoes.
8:50
The Knapping Mind: What a Hammer’s Angle Tells Us About Neanderthal Precision
A new experimental study explores how ancient toolmakers controlled flake shape—and what it reveals about cognition in the deep past.
21:41
Stone, Silence, and Sand: New Evidence of Pleistocene Life in Iran’s Central Desert
A survey in the Eyvanekey region of northern Iran uncovers a patchwork of Paleolithic sites, reshaping our understanding of ancient human migration…
19:19
Rewriting Contact: New Radiocarbon Dates Challenge Colonial Myths in Eastern North America
Emerging techniques in radiocarbon dating push back timelines for Indigenous persistence & resilience after European arrival—raising questions about how…
13:17
Neanderthal Engineers of the Ice Age: A Bone Spear Point from Mezmaiskaya Cave Challenges the Narrative
A carefully crafted bone-tipped hunting weapon from 80,000 years ago offers a window into Neanderthal ingenuity and reshapes the conversation about…
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