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When Fire Became a Tool: Tracing Humanity’s Ecological Fingerprint to 50,000 Years Ago
A new study reveals that by the time Homo sapiens dispersed across Eurasia, fire was no longer just a force of nature—it had become a companion, a…
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How Ancient Hondurans Helped Shape the Avocados We Eat Today
From Ice Age megafauna to modern monoculture, new research traces 11,000 years of avocado domestication in Central America—and the indigenous practices…
10:06
Rethinking the Origins of Stone Age Ornament Craft in Northern Europe
How Prehistoric Tooth Pendants Weren't Just Decoration, But Reflections of Cooking, Craft, and Community
12:34
Ice Age in the High Country
A Rock Shelter in the Blue Mountains Pushes Back the Timeline of Aboriginal High-Altitude Living
13:40
When Africa Refused to Dry: Rethinking Climate and Human Evolution in the Pliocene
New Research Finds North Africa’s Rainfall Remained Stable Despite Global Climate Cooling
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How Africa Forged the First Ecological Generalists
Before the Exodus: What Made Homo sapiens Ready to Leave?
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Human Presence in White Sands Before Clovis
A prehistoric footprint trail reshapes the peopling of the Americas
16:20
Dragon Man Unmasked: How a Century-Old Skull Rewrites Denisovan History
A Ghost in the Human Family Tree
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How a Lost Siberian Language Rewrites the History of the Huns
New linguistic evidence suggests that the Huns and the ancient Xiōng-nú shared not only a common ancestry, but a shared mother tongue—a long-extinct…
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How Dogs Followed Farmers into the Americas
Ancient DNA traces the slow, steady journey of dogs alongside early agriculture into Central and South America—and how a Chihuahua kept the memory…
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The Cloud in the Cord
Climate, Kinship, and Memory in the Sacred Khipus of the Andes
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The Sperm Whale Tooth at Valencina and the Deep Time of Sea-Human Entanglement
An enigmatic marine relic, buried inland over 4,000 years ago, sheds new light on the Copper Age worldview of Iberian societies and their symbolic ties…
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