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A 700,000-Year-Old Elephant Tooth From Gesher Benot Ya’aqov
A straight-tusked elephant molar found among Acheulian handaxes in Israel records roughly three years of one animal’s diet and drinking water.
Oct 9
4
1
39:58
Neanderthal Woodworking: 13 Artifacts in 597 Wood Remains
Travertine at Abric Romaní kept the shapes of Neanderthal spears, trays and a club, and the Middle Paleolithic toolkit looks larger for it.
Oct 8
11
4
52:37
Trypillia Pottery: Six Decoration Styles Became One
Pottery diversity can rise or fall as Neolithic societies grow, and Trypillia and Linear Pottery sites in Europe show both directions.
Oct 8
6
1
52:32
Maya Maize Farming Was Wetland Farming for 4,000 Years
Soil isotopes from southern Belize show wetland-adjacent maize fields by 6,000 years ago and a slow move uphill that began only after 4,000 years ago.
Oct 7
4
1
44:01
Hadza and Tsimane Share 1,231 Gut Microbiome Species
Gut bacteria from Tanzania and the Bolivian Amazon share deep ancestry, and a Nature study says their split roughly tracks human migration.
Oct 7
6
2
40:17
Scandinavian Aurochs: Still Alive 6,500 Years Ago
Ancient DNA, 108 radiocarbon dates and Mesolithic bone piles suggest hunting, inbreeding and spreading forest together ended the Scandinavian aurochs.
Oct 4
5
1
2
1:03:22
Coca Leaves Found in Wool of 3 Sacrificed Inka Llamas
Excavations at Tambo Viejo in Peru’s Acarí Valley found whole coca leaves where Spanish chroniclers said the Inka burned them.
Oct 4
4
2
40:36
First Americans: DNA Lineages No Older Than 21,000 Years
Ancient DNA from 1,204 people in the Americas shows lineages diversifying no earlier than 21,000 years ago, an awkward fit for the oldest sites.
Oct 3
12
1
2
42:52
Flat Head Syndrome in 42% of Iron Age Italians
Skulls from Matelica, Italy, show deformational plagiocephaly nearly 3,000 years before the Back to Sleep campaign
Oct 2
6
2
42:52
Homo erectus in South Africa: Outnumbered 10 to 1
A skull fragment from Drimolen pushes the adult Homo erectus record back to 2 million years ago, among far more Paranthropus.
Oct 1
9
3
43:32
September 2026
Was Meretneith a Pharaoh? 13 Lost Seals, 1 Photograph
A 2026 study uses digital tracing on Walter Emery’s photograph of a Saqqara sealing to argue that Meretneith held the royal serekh of the First Dynasty.
Sep 30
6
1
Babylonian Scribes Learned 2,000 Gods, Then Rearranged Them
Babylonian scribal schools taught religion through god-lists, and at Uruk the priests trained on them used the lists to raise Anu above Ištar.
Sep 30
5
2
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