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A Teenager’s Teeth Reveal Lithuania’s Hidden Christian Community
Isotope analysis of a medieval Vilnius cemetery shows Europe’s last pagan capital was already a city of migrants, converts, and mixed households by the…
23:29
Individual 289’s Second Molar Tells a Different Story Than His Third
A single tooth can betray a childhood spent in two different countries
39:18
Bones of Egyptian Princesses Who Drew Bows for a Living
A reassessment of six royal skeletons from Dahshur finds that the weapons buried with Middle Kingdom princesses weren’t symbolic. Their bones were built…
49:59
The Map in Your Head Isn’t the Map on the Ground
A cellphone-data study of two million Americans and 300,000 Senegalese suggests human movement runs on two different engines, one for the neighborhood…
24:04
What the Bones Ate: Rewriting the Farming Story of the Brazilian Cerrado
Isotope evidence from more than 100 individuals shows precolonial villages in central Brazil built their food economies on diversified maize…
43:42
Why Your Brain Still Wants a Hunting Partner, Not a Study Buddy
New research on same-sex friendship suggests we size up potential friends using criteria built for a world of hunter-gatherers, not group chats
36:13
Children Are Not Just Learning Culture. They’re Making It.
A new synthesis in Behavioral and Brain Sciences argues that peer groups of children produce, transmit, and sometimes preserve knowledge that adults…
32:58
The Signature at the Back of the Room
A Xultun scribe closed a mathematical formula with his own name, and 1,245 years later, epigraphers finally read it
32:38
Gold Diadems from the Tombs of Hala Sultan Tekke
What 3,400-year-old forehead ornaments from a Cypriot harbor city reveal about trade, status, and the limits of symbolic assumption
48:21
The Rib That Wouldn’t Lie Flat
A medieval child’s skeleton from Aberdeen forced researchers to build a new framework for reading abuse in ancient bones
45:09
A Damaged Land Grant in the British Museum and Three Kings Assyria Tried to Forget
How a single misread cuneiform sign unraveled a century of confidence in the Assyrian King List
41:03
A Dead Infant’s Ribs and the Cost of Building the World’s First Cities
A 6,000-year-old skeleton from Tell Brak suggests that urban life arrived with a darker companion: violence against the smallest and most dependent…
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