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The Oldest Sewn Hide in the World Came from an Oregon Cave
When you can't survive winter without complex clothing, everything about how you live changes.
13:41
The Deer Mask at the Edge of the Farming World
What a 7,000-year-old ritual object tells us about life on the boundary between two ways of being human
11:57
The Uniqueness Problem: Cave Burials in the Great Basin
A new study challenges the idea that one region's burial practices were exceptional—and finds that claims of uniqueness often collapse under closer…
15:32
When AI Imagines Neanderthals, It Dreams of the 1960s
A computational analysis reveals that generative AI produces representations of our extinct relatives that are decades out of date—and systematically…
14:01
The Finger Ratio Paradox: What Newborn Hand Proportions Tell Us About the Cost of Getting Smarter
A new study links prenatal estrogen to brain size in boys — and suggests our species may have evolved bigger brains at the expense of male health
14:42
When Climate Doesn't Explain Everything: Two Toolkits, Two Worlds
The puzzle starts with pollen
16:10
The Cost of Fire: How Burns Shaped the Human Body
When Evolution Meets Combustion
18:58
What a 3,500-Year-Old Mummification Balm Smells Like
Biomolecular archaeology can now identify ancient aromatic molecules. A new study shows how museums can turn that data into an experience visitors can…
16:05
The Italian Olive Goes Back Further Than Anyone Expected
New archaeological evidence shows exploitation of olive trees in Italy began 6,000 years ago, and oil production may have started 4,000 years ago
17:25
The People Who Never Left
A genetic study reveals how one Greek population stayed put for 1,400 years while the world changed around them
16:17
From Mammoth Ivory to Clovis Points: Alaska’s Quiet Role in the Peopling of the Americas
Stone chips, ivory rods, and hearth ash from interior Alaska suggest that the technologies later associated with Clovis culture were already taking…
12:56
A Bed of Sand for a Goddess
How an unexpected layer beneath Assur’s Ishtar Temple rewrites the city’s beginnings and exposes the ritual logic of its founders
16:57
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