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Possible Arrowheads from 80,000 Years Ago in Uzbekistan Are Rewriting Where Homo sapiens Came From
Tiny stone fragments in a Central Asian rock shelter are challenging the standard story of how our species first entered Europe
18:22
The Maya Who Stayed: Wetland Farmers at the Edge of Collapse
A new excavation in Belize finds preserved wood, fishhooks, and a community that didn't leave when everyone else did
20:45
The People the Urns Left Out: Genetics, Bones, and Burial in Late Bronze Age Central Germany
What rare inhumations from the Urnfield period reveal about ancestry, mobility, diet, and death in communities that refused to follow the crowd
20:54
Little Foot's Face, Reconstructed at Last
What a 3.67-million-year-old crushed skull from South Africa tells us about where our ancestors came from
20:18

February 2026

The X Chromosome That Rewrote What We Know About Neanderthal Sex
A new study finds the interbreeding between our species was not random — and the pattern written into ancient DNA is strange enough to demand…
19:04
What Mosquitoes Remember About Homo erectus
A new genomic study suggests the ancestors of Southeast Asia's deadliest malaria vectors started targeting humans nearly two million years ago — long…
21:16
The Geometric Grammar of 60,000-Year-Old Ostrich Eggshells
What engraved fragments from southern Africa reveal about the deep roots of structured visual thought
20:43
The Goat That Remembered: Ancient DNA and Ireland's 3,000-Year Livestock Line
A single bone from a Bronze Age hillfort connects Ireland's oldest confirmed goat remains to a breed that still roams the country's margins today
16:48
What Bones from Prehistoric Poland Reveal About Who Ate What — and Why It Mattered
A new isotope study tracks three millennia of diet, inequality, and food identity in north-central Poland, from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.
16:33
The Human Breast as a Heating Pad: A New Hypothesis for an Old Puzzle
A small Finnish study suggests that nursing mothers' breasts resist cooling in ways that might explain why humans evolved them in the first place.
20:31
What the Soil Remembered: Microscopic Fibres and the Dressed Dead of Stone Age Scandinavia
A new technique for recovering feather and fur remains from ancient graves is rewriting what we know about Mesolithic burial dress
17:02
What a Hunter-Gatherer Site on the Edge of Patagonia Reveals About Survival, Ritual, and Why People Stay
A site on the Colorado River is rewriting the timeline of subsistence diversification in southern Argentina — and raising harder questions about why…
18:49
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