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Roots Beneath the Rift: Ancient Southern African Genomes Recast the Story of Homo sapiens
New DNA from Stone Age individuals reveals a long period of population isolation, local innovation, and unexpected evolutionary pathways in our species…
18 hrs ago
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11:58
The Silver That Shouldn’t Exist: How a Lone Bangle Rewrites Bronze Age Metallurgy in Western Europe
A rare artifact from an El Argar grave reveals an unexpectedly sophisticated casting technique long before Western Europe was thought capable of…
18 hrs ago
1
15:24
A Hybrid Hoofprint: How an Early Iron Age Mule Redraws the Map of Mediterranean Exchange
A newly analyzed equid from Catalonia hints that hybrid animal breeding, long tied to later empires, had deeper and more complex roots in the western…
18 hrs ago
1
1
11:33
Breathless at 3,000 Meters: How Epigenetics Rewrites the Story of Andean High-Altitude Life
New methylome research suggests that Indigenous Andean adaptations may rest not in genes, but in biochemical marks that shift with the mountain air
Dec 3
2
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10:52
Echoes Before Language: What Chimpanzee Calls Reveal About the Human Brain
A new study suggests our auditory system is not just tuned for human voices but remains quietly responsive to the vocal signatures of our primate…
Dec 3
2
1
12:06
The Long Memory of Plants: Rethinking Humanity’s Deep-Time Appetite
Why the story of human evolution is impossible to tell without roots, tubers, nuts, and seeds.
Dec 3
2
1
17:13
Stone, Water, and Time: How a Kurdish Stalagmite Rewrites the Climate Story of Early Farming
A new cave record suggests that the road to agriculture in the eastern Fertile Crescent was forged through hardship, flexibility, and millennia of…
Dec 3
1
12:33
Echoes Across Millennia: The Neolithic Shell Trumpets That Carried Messages Through Catalonia’s Ancient Landscapes
New acoustic experiments on 6,000 year old Charonia shells reveal how sound shaped social life, coordination, and expression in early farming…
Dec 2
1
1
13:21
The First Horizon: How Ancient Genomes Redraw the Story of Australia’s Earliest Peoples
New genetic evidence strengthens the case for a much earlier and more complex human arrival in Sahul.
Dec 1
3
1
13:47
Stones, Seas, and Shifting Powers: Rethinking Tell Abraq’s Long Life on the Gulf
How one coastal mound reveals three millennia of influence, ambition, and spiritual traffic across the Persian Gulf
Dec 1
3
1
9:08
When Soil Lies: How Mediterranean Chemistry Distorted Decades of Ancient Olive Oil Claims
New experimental work shows that archaeologists have been misreading the molecular fingerprints of ancient oils for years, reshaping how we understand…
Dec 1
3
2
12:34
Circles in the Chalk: Rethinking the Giant Pit Ring Hidden Beside Durrington Walls
A new wave of geophysical and environmental analyses reveals that the enormous pits encircling Durrington Walls were deliberate Neolithic engineering…
Dec 1
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