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How Andean Foragers Became Farmers Without Giving Up the Good Life

The Daughters of Çatalhöyük: What Ancient DNA Reveals About Female-Centered Life in a Neolithic City

How Stone Age Mariners Conquered the Kuroshio

Maize, Mobility, and Memory: Small-Scale Migration and the Birth of Early Farming in the Sonoran Desert

Life and Survival Along the Liao Empire's Forgotten Frontier

Temple on the Edge: How a Hidden Ritual Site Redraws the Map of the Tiwanaku State

When Fire Became a Tool: Tracing Humanity’s Ecological Fingerprint to 50,000 Years Ago

How Ancient Hondurans Helped Shape the Avocados We Eat Today

Rethinking the Origins of Stone Age Ornament Craft in Northern Europe

Ice Age in the High Country

When Africa Refused to Dry: Rethinking Climate and Human Evolution in the Pliocene

How Africa Forged the First Ecological Generalists

Human Presence in White Sands Before Clovis

Dragon Man Unmasked: How a Century-Old Skull Rewrites Denisovan History

How a Lost Siberian Language Rewrites the History of the Huns

How Dogs Followed Farmers into the Americas

The Cloud in the Cord

The Sperm Whale Tooth at Valencina and the Deep Time of Sea-Human Entanglement

The Bow, the Brain, and the Human Mind

Wheels in the Dark: How Copper Miners Might Have Engineered Humanity’s Greatest Invention

How AI is Decoding Centuries of Archaeological Data

Pigs, Plaque, and the Roots of Domestication

Laying Down the Dead, Rising Up the Maya

Rethinking Neanderthal Expansion into Eurasia

The Myth of Monolithic Ancestry: What 230,000 Genomes Reveal About American Identity

What Tiny Tooth Defects Say About Hominin Evolution

What Isotopes Reveal About Bronze Age Lives in the Carpathian Basin

How Early Humans Shaped Culture Through Teaching

How a Neolithic Chinese Village Lived by Maternal Descent

The Forest Fields of the North

What Mindoro's Ancient Mariners Tell Us About Early Human Seafaring

2,500 Years of Human History in Coastal New Guinea

How Early Humans Used Flame to Guard and Preserve Big Game

Buried Grids & Rebellious Ghosts: Tracing Slave-Built Agriculture in Iraq

Klein Hoek 1: Reading the Stone-Silent Past Beneath an Open Sky

What a 17,000-Year-Old Skeleton Tells Us About Ice Age Conflict

Ancient DNA Tracks the Rise and Fall of Classic Maya Copán

What 11,000 Animal Remains Reveal About Ancient Life in Iran's Zagros Mountains

Tracing Deep Time in Sudan's Bayuda

Teeth, Proteins, and Paranthropus: Cracking Open an Ancient Mystery

Ancient Genomes from Yunnan and the Mosaic of East Asian Prehistory

Leprosy in the Americas Before Columbus

How Preserved Human Brains Are Rewriting Paleoproteomics

Touchstones in the Desert: How Monuments Helped Ancient Arabians Adapt to Climate Change

Ghosts in the Andes: The Rise, Replacement, and Resilience of Ancient Colombian Genomes

Ancient Hips & Human Origins

Fragments of the Ancestors: Rethinking Maya Burials and the Politics of Place

Ghosts of the Surf: Whale Bone Tools and the Deep History of Human–Sea Connections

Neanderthal Symbolism at San Lázaro

Tracing Infant Life in Bronze Age Syria

Smoke and Memory: How Iron Age Arabia Burned Plants to Heal and Cleanse

The Finger Bone That Changed Everything

Ancient Ink: A South American Mummy's Silent Marks

Crops, Climate, and Empire: How Ancient Farmers Sustained the Han Dynasty

Fueling Giants: The Ancient Mutation Behind Human Height and Metabolism

Cemeteries of Disappearance: How Genomics Exposed a Forgotten Ethnic Cleansing in Spain

Ancient Memory in Stone: Burial, Belief, and Crossroads in Prehistoric Tangier

Homo Erectus Beneath the Waves

The Long Walk South: Tracing the Longest Migration in Human History

In the Shadows of Civilization: Rethinking the Origins of Domestication

Ancient Crossroads: How Burial Monuments and Rock Art Reveal a Forgotten Ritual Landscape in the Tangier Peninsula

Bones of Contention: What Fossil Hands Reveal About Our Ancient Grip

The Obsidian Nexus: Trade, Ritual, and Power in the Mexica Empire

The Plateau Persists

At the Edge of the Ice: Tracing the Footsteps of Scotland’s Earliest Hunters

Mapping the Genome of a Multi-Ethnic Nation

Tracing Disease Along the Copper Road

Rewriting the Timeline: Neanderthal Innovation at Schöningen

Inked in the Underworld: Maya Tattoo Tools and the Sacred Skin

The Teenage Huntress of the Andes

The Mutation That Traveled Through Time

When the Plow Turned the Tables: How Inequality Took Root in Human History

Flint and Footprints in the Ice

A Tin Thread Through Time

The Priestly Chemistry of Maya Blue: How Ritual and Science Colored an Empire

Smoke and Stone: How Hallucinogens Shaped Power in Ancient Peru

The Stones, the Fire, and the Cave: Neanderthal Lives in the Iranian Highlands

The Knapping Mind: What a Hammer’s Angle Tells Us About Neanderthal Precision

Stone, Silence, and Sand: New Evidence of Pleistocene Life in Iran’s Central Desert

Rewriting Contact: New Radiocarbon Dates Challenge Colonial Myths in Eastern North America

Neanderthal Engineers of the Ice Age: A Bone Spear Point from Mezmaiskaya Cave Challenges the Narrative

“We Have Always Been Here”: How DNA and Oral Tradition Aligned to Tell the Picuris Pueblo’s Deep Past

Faces from the Deep Past: How Europe's Skulls Record 30,000 Years of Upheaval

Echoes of Movement: How the Grammar of Indigenous Languages Maps the Peopling of the Americas

When the Music Stops: What the Absence of Lullabies and Dance Among the Aché Tells Us About Human Culture

Painting Through Change: How Aboriginal Artists Reimagined Animal Life in a Shifting Holocene Landscape

Hunter-Gatherers at the Edge of the Ice: Tracing the Ahrensburgian in Scotland’s Far Northwest

Sewing Survival: How Ice Age Hunters Mastered Winter with Reindeer Fur

Yeast in the Trees: How a Tiny Organism Traces the Footsteps of Ancient Humans

Bearing the Weight of History

Ashes to Acres

Phoenicia Without Borders

Clay and Shell in the Gobi Wind

Bones That Spoke: What Prehistoric Body Modifications Reveal About Ancient South Texas

The Myth of Neolithic Monarchs

Climate, Chaos, and Cooperation: How Shifting Environments May Have Forged Early Human Solidarity

A Face in the Rock: Tracing Early Human Symbolism in the South Caucasus

The Marsh Ambush: What a 300,000-Year-Old Horse Hunt Reveals About Early Human Cooperation

Empire in a Shell: How Iron Age Craftspeople on the Carmel Coast Turned Snails into Royal Power

The Last Feast of the Bustards: Ritual, Memory, and the Decline of a Giant Bird

When the Sky Burned: How a Weakened Magnetic Field May Have Tilted the Fate of Early Humans

Farming Inequality: How Ancient Land Use Split Societies

Inequality, Endurance, and the Shape of Human Settlements

The Architecture of Inequality

Rethinking Inequality: What 50,000 Ancient Homes Tell Us About Power, Wealth, and Human Choices

Fire in the Cold: The Hidden Pyrotechnics of Ice Age Foragers

Words in the Snow: What 616 Languages Reveal About the Human Mind

How Evolution Shaped the Human Pelvis: A Fragile Balance Between Birth and Bipedalism

When Mammoth Ivory Met Human Hands: Rethinking the Origins of Innovation

The Ocean Floor Jawbone That’s Redrawing Denisovan History

Early Seafaring: Evidence of Stone Age Maritime Skills in the Mediterranean

Stone Tools in South African Caves Illuminate Prehistoric Social Networks

Echoes of Teotihuacan in Tikal: Unraveling Ancient Mesoamerican Ties

Tracing Ancient Networks: The Journey of Obsidian Artifacts into Alberta's Archaeological Record

Echoes Across the Sands: Bronze Age Cymbals Reveal Musical Ties Between Oman and the Indus Valley

The Geometry of Memory: How Knots Carry the Weight of Human History

Climate Change and Prehistoric Populations: Insights from Europe's Final Paleolithic

Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara Reveals a Lost North African Lineage

A Stone Age Puzzle: How Did Quina Tools Reach Ancient China?

Children's Role in Upper Paleolithic Cave Art

Rethinking the Dawn of Agriculture: Human Agency in the Neolithic Transition

The Evolutionary Roots of the Human Brain: How Two Genes Shaped Our Cognitive Landscape

Tracing Ancestral Journeys: A Dynamic View of Human Migration

The Pelvic Anatomy of DNH 43: A Window into Hominin Evolution

Early Copper Crafting Among Anatolia's Last Hunter-Gatherers

The Evolutionary Puzzle of Sexual Dimorphism in Early Hominins

The Shape of a Face: What Neanderthal Growth Patterns Reveal About Human Evolution

Climate and the First South Americans: How Ancient Environments Shaped Early Human Settlement

Ancient Bedrock Metates Reveal Early Plant Processing in Oregon’s Uplands

Rethinking Levallois: A 3D Look at the Precision of Middle Stone Age Tool-making

Did Neanderthals Eat Maggots? A Closer Look at an Unlikely Food Source

The Mystery of the Melka Kunture Spheres: Did Early Hominins Use Naturally Shaped Stones as Tools?

A Forgotten Chapter in Human Evolution: The Hidden Ancestry of Modern Humans

When Did Humans First Make Stone Tools? New Research Suggests They Didn’t—At First

A Red Smile from the Silk Road: The Mystery of Cinnabar-Stained Teeth in Ancient Turpan

The Politics of Pottery: How Ceramics Mapped the Borders of El Argar’s Bronze Age World

Respecting the Dead: The Ethics of Human Skeletal Research and Curation

When Did Humans Start Talking? Genomic Evidence Pushes Language Back to 135,000 Years Ago

How Well Could Our Early Ancestors Run? A New Study Puts Australopithecus afarensis to the Test

The Cats Before the Cats: How Leopard Cats Lived Among Ancient Chinese Societies for Millennia

Ancient DNA Reveals Europeans Voyaged By Sea To Maghreb

The Neanderthal Legacy in East Asian Genetics: A Different Path to Lactase Gene Evolution

A New Face in the European Fossil Record: What a Spanish Cave Tells Us About Early Human Ancestors

Buried Together: What an Israeli Cave Reveals About Early Human and Neanderthal Life

Avocados and Ancient Farmers: How Early Humans Shaped a Favorite Fruit

A Massacre at the Edge of an Empire: DNA Identifies Victims of a 2,100-Year-Old Battlefield

A Window Into the Early Epigravettian: Grotta della Lea and Italy’s Final Ice Age Hunters

A Call for Respect: Rethinking How Museums Care for Animal Remains

A Mysterious Burial in Ecuador: Tracing the Death and Rituals of a Pregnant Manteño Woman

The Lapedo Child: A 28,000-Year-Old Mystery Reshaped by Science

The Ancient Lifelines of Mesopotamia: How Newly Discovered Irrigation Canals Rewrite History

Before Stonehenge: The Mystery of Britain’s First Great Circle

The Puppets of the Past: A Window into Preclassic Mesoamerica

Bones of Innovation: How Early Hominins Pioneered Toolmaking 1.5 Million Years Ago

A Small but Capable Walker: New Fossil Discovery Sheds Light on Paranthropus robustus

Rewriting the Past: The Forgotten Bronze Age of North Africa

The Multilingual Cradle: How Babies in Ghana Absorb Up to Six Languages from Birth

A Harsh Childhood: Bioarchaeologists Examine Health and Survival in the Pre-Columbian Andes

Grinding Stones and the Passage of Time: Unraveling the Rituals of Early Neolithic Societies

Early Humans in the Heart of the Rainforest: A 150,000-Year-Old Mystery Unfolds

The Journey of Homo sapiens into East Eurasia: What Ancient Genomes Reveal

Echoes of the Dead: Burial Caves and Sacred Landscapes of the Southern Jê

Tracing the Huns’ Genetic Legacy: A Eurasian Patchwork of Ancestry

22,000-Year-Old Footprints Reveal the Earliest Evidence of Human Transport Technology

Neanderthals: The First Collectors? A Surprising Look into Prehistoric Curiosity

Ancient Mariners of Southeast Asia: The Boatbuilders Who Crossed the Ocean 40,000 Years Ago

Skulls, Strontium, and Secrets: Unraveling the Rituals of Iron Age Iberia

Tracing the Genetic Echo of Neanderthals: A Bottleneck in Evolution

Two Worlds, Two Technologies: The Divergent Stone Industries of the Uluzzian and Châtelperronian Peoples

The Firekeepers of the Ice Age: Unearthing the Gravettian Flame

The Gene That May Have Helped Shape Human Language

The Evolution of European Pigmentation: A Slow, Complex Journey Through Ancient DNA

The Stone Blades of Jebel Faya: Rewriting the Story of Early Humans in Arabia

Ancient Meteors and Early Iron: How Space Rocks Became Everyday Tools in Iron Age Poland

Ancient Instincts, Modern Power Struggles: How Evolution Still Shapes Human Society

Canine Self-Domestication: A New Evolutionary Perspective on Wolves and Dogs

The Wolves That Became Dogs: A New Model for Rapid Domestication

The Fulani Enigma: Unraveling the Deep Genetic History of Africa’s Legendary Pastoralists

The Hidden Code of Greenlanders: What Genetics Reveals About Their Ancestry and Health

Ancient Remains from the Thames Reveal 6,000 Years of Human Deposition

A New Face in the Hominin Family Tree: Meet Paranthropus capensis, the Mysterious Cousin of Early Humans

How Humans Reshaped the Pig's Skull in Just 100 Years

Ancient Proteins Unlock the Identity of a 3.5-Million-Year-Old Hominin

The Taung Child at 100: Decolonizing the Origins of Paleoanthropology

Carving the Mind: Middle Paleolithic Engravings and the Dawn of Symbolic Thought

The Genetic Fine-Tuning That Set the Human Brain Apart

Echoes from the Ice Age: DNA Unveils the Prehistoric Inhabitants of El Mirón Cave

Bones of Contention: New Evidence of Cannibalism in Magdalenian Culture

The Genomic Legacy of the Picenes: Unraveling Italy’s Forgotten Civilization

Tracing the First Speakers of Indo-European: Ancient DNA Challenges Old Theories

Ancient Europeans May Have Worn Cheek Piercings 30,000 Years Ago

Lucy on the Run: Reconstructing the Sprinting Capabilities of Our Ancient Ancestors

The Long Journey of Domesticated Sheep: How Ancient Herders Shaped a Global Livelihood

The Mythological Tapestry of Humanity: Unraveling Ancient Stories through Genes and Geography

Neanderthals and the Blood Connection: Could Their Rh Factor Have Sealed Their Fate?

How Early Humans Shaped Europe’s Scavenger Communities

Bigger, Taller, and More Formidable: The Evolutionary Tale of Male Growth

Tracing the Dawn of Humanity: Hominins in Eurasia Before 2 Million Years Ago

Echoes of the Past: Understanding Ancient Diets at Franchthi Cave

Three Million Years Ago, Our Ancestors Ate Plants, Not Mammals

East Meets West: Avar Society’s Genetic Patchwork in Early Medieval Austria

Thriving Against the Odds: How Homo erectus Conquered Extreme Environments

Strategic Minds of the Early Acheulian Toolmakers

Tracing Ancient Roots: How Iron Age Britain Centered on Women

A Solar Plea: The Mystery of Bornholm’s Engraved Sun Stones

Tracing the Genetic Threads of Wallacea’s Complex History

The Starch-Fueled Lives of Early Humans

The World’s Oldest 3D Map? Paleolithic Engraving in a Paris Basin Cave

The Evolution of the Human Brain: Gene Expression and Cell Specialization

Yemen: A Genetic Crossroads of Ancient Humanity

Genetics Through Time: The Evolutionary Mosaic of Early Medieval Europe

The Moche and the Bonds of Blood: Genetic Evidence Reveals Elite Family Ties