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Ötzi’s Inner Ecosystem: What 5,300 Years of Microbial Life Looks Like
The Iceman’s gut flora, glacier yeasts, and the problem of preservation
8 hrs ago
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The Cave That Kept Giving
Thirty years of excavation at El Mirón have turned a limestone cave in Cantabrian Spain into one of the most complete records of human prehistory in…
Jun 1
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The Younger One Climbed More
Two hominins, one valley, and what their bones reveal about the crooked path to upright walking
Jun 1
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Eleven Lines in a Welsh Cave
The red marks in Bacon Hole were dismissed as a natural phenomenon almost a century ago. New dating puts them at 17,000 years old.
Jun 1
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Eight Centuries of Iron in the Falémé Valley
A single workshop in eastern Senegal ran continuously for nearly 800 years — and the way it worked barely changed
Jun 1
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May 2026
Beds of Grass and Ash: 200,000 Years of Sleeping Arrangements at Border Cave
A new microscopic study traces how Middle Stone Age people at a South African rock shelter constructed, maintained, and repeatedly burned their bedding…
May 30
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How Copper Age Children Breathed Their Last: Disease in Europe’s Largest Prehistoric Mass Burial
A 5,000-year-old tomb in southeastern Spain holds the skeletal record of a childhood health crisis — and it’s more pervasive than anyone expected
May 30
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A 6,000-Year-Old Assembly Hall and What It Says About Prehistoric Democracy
Archaeologists have uncovered a massive communal building that adds new weight to an old debate: can large human communities govern themselves without…
May 29
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The Neanderthal Immune System Was Not Built for EBV
Archaic DNA that once helped us fight RNA viruses appears to leave carriers more vulnerable to a different class of persistent pathogens — and the…
May 28
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The Emeralds at the Edge of the World
How Colombian gemstones ended up in the tombs of Panama’s ancient chiefs — and what their presence reveals about a trading world we’re only beginning to…
May 28
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Brass Before Islam: What the Sasanian Empire's Metal Artifacts Actually Were
New analysis of helmets & jewelry from Merv & Nineveh reveals that Sasanian metalworkers used brass far more intentionally than anyone knew & that…
May 28
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Nine Teeth from Payre and the Uneven Shape of Neanderthal Evolution
A new morphometric analysis of Middle Pleistocene dental remains from southeastern France finds regional variation where a simple evolutionary…
May 27
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