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The Hidden Nutrient Map Inside Our DNA
Stone Tools and Shared Rituals: Rethinking Gender and Childhood in the Baltic Stone Age
Horns Across the Sea: Bronze Figurines and the Metal Highways of the First Millennium BCE
Bronze Age Elites on the Move: The Foreign Dead of Seddin
Shaping Minds: How a Human-Accelerated Neuron Type May Explain Autism’s Prevalence
The Attention Gap: Tracing the Neurogenetic Roots of Homo sapiens’ Focus
Hair, Stone, and Memory: A 27,000-Year-Old Figurine from Northern France
Children of the Estuary: Mesolithic Burials at Cabeço da Amoreira
Hunters of the Plateau: Rethinking Early Homo sapiens in Iberia
A Riddle in the Dark: Was This Small-Brained Hominin the First to Bury Its Dead?
Beyond the Family Tree: How Genetic Admixture Rewrites the History of Language
Stones and Fire in the West African Savanna
A Lone Ingot and the Trade Networks of the Iron Age Baltic
When Mutations Aren’t Accidents
How the Slavic Migrations Reshaped Europe’s Genetic and Cultural Landscape
When Goats Grew and Deer Shrunk
The Ghost of a Pandemic: Unearthing the Plague That Changed History
A Maya Town Between Two Worlds: Hunacti and the Cost of Defiance
Children of Jade: Maya Tooth Inlays Reveal a Hidden Rite of Passage
Reawakening an Ancient Gene: Can Reviving Uricase Rewrite Human Health?
Two Genetic Leaps That Set Us Walking
An Ancient Arrow and a Fatal Infection: Violence at the End of the Ice Age in Southeast Asia
Hands and Minds: How Thumbs and Brains Grew Together in Primate Evolution
Beyond the Fertile Crescent: Barley, Foragers, and the Forgotten Story of Central Asia
The Cow That Walked to Stonehenge: A Tooth’s Tale of a 5,000-Year-Old Journey
Shaping the Self: How Andean Head-Binding Reflected Mountains, Power, and Personhood
An Anatomy of Victory: The Neolithic Pits of Achenheim and Bergheim
When a Ghost from the Past Paved the Way for a New World
The Ibex and the Moon: How a Mountain Goat Shaped Fertility Myths in the Ancient Near East
When Farmers Met Foragers: The Slow Dance That Shaped Europe
When Tides Built Cities: How Shifting Waters Shaped the Birth of Sumer
The Petralona Skull and the Long Puzzle of Europe’s Early Humans
Roots of Domestication: How Ancient Farmers and Shifting Environments Shaped Maize Beneath the Soil
Were Arrows Flying in Central Asia 80,000 Years Ago?
Women of the Deep: Prehistoric Miners Buried in the Krumlov Forest
A Commoner’s Hair in the Knots: Rethinking Inca Recordkeeping
The Tiny DNA Switch That Helped Shape the Human Mind
Stones Across the Savanna: Early Hominins and the First Long-Distance Tool Transport
A Ghost in Our Genes: The Enduring Legacy of Denisovan DNA
The Slow-Drip of Mayan Collapse
The Unexpected Footprints of History: West African Roots in Early Medieval England
Tracing the Movements of Ancestors in a Glittering Cave
Shaping Identity in the Late Ice Age: Europe’s Oldest Modified Skull
Tracing a Prehistoric Plague Through the Pastures of the Eurasian Steppe
When Climate Shaped the Menu: Ancient Diets at Vichama
Violence in the Neolithic: Evidence of Cannibalism at El Mirador Cave
Five Millennia in the Mountains: How the Southern Caucasus Held Its Genetic Ground
Teeth from the Borderlands of Time
A Forest of Cities: Rethinking the Population and Planning of the Ancient Maya Lowlands
A Fragile Enzyme and the Making of Modern Minds
The Appetite That Preceded the Tooth: How Hominins Chewed Their Way Into Evolution
Beneath the Plaque: A 4,000-Year-Old Story of Betel, Memory, and Mouths
Lines of Life: Uncovering the Craft and Identity of Pazyryk Tattoo Artists
Revisiting Body‐Size Differences in Early Australopithecines: Insights from Postcranial Data
A Bronze Age Daughter of Khorasan
Rotten Riches: What Maggots on Meat Reveal About the Neanderthal Diet
Beneath the Waves: Lost Crossings and the Search for Humanity’s Hidden Journeys
Papua New Guineans and the Deep Past of Our Species
Revisiting Stonehenge's Bluestones: Why the Newall Boulder Matters
Millet in the Margins: Why Early Japanese Farmers Rejected a Staple of Korean Cuisine
The Captive Storm God and the Clever Fox: A Glimpse into Early Sumerian Mythmaking
Ötzi’s Mountain Neighbors: What Ancient DNA Reveals About Alpine Lives and Kinship
How Duplicated Genes May Have Shaped the Human Brain
Spirits of the State: How Alcohol May Have Helped Build Ancient Hierarchies
The Whale’s Tooth and the Copper Age Mind
How Neanderthals Butchered Their Dinner—and Why It Mattered
From the Taiga to the Danube: Ancient DNA Maps the East Asian Origins of Uralic Languages
Caves of Connection—60,000 Years of Human Stories in Iran’s Zagros
The Donkeys Buried Beneath the Floor
The Weakening Muscle: A Neanderthal Legacy Hidden in Our Genes
Bones, Plagues, and Pigs: How Farming Reshaped Our Immune System
Feasting Before Farming: What Boar Skulls in the Zagros Tell Us About Neolithic Social Life
What Genomes Reveal About Ancient Life in the Himalayas
The Dogs That Pulled History: A Genetic Chronicle of Greenland's Sled Dogs
Bones, Bugs, and Bronze Age Baggage: Tracing 37,000 Years of Ancient Disease
The DNA Clock Versus the Red Sands: Rethinking the Peopling of Sahul
When Neanderthal Skulls Haunt the Modern Brain
The Deep Past in the Present: Neanderthal Genetic Echoes in Autism
Rethinking Ritual: The Shifting Landscapes of Sacred Space in East Polynesia
A Copper Age Infant and the Quiet Testimony of Fragile Bones
A 33,000-Year-Old Sloth Injury from Uruguay & the Hunt for the First Americans
Ancient Wooden Tools and the Plant-Based Lives of Early Hominins in China
A Hot Meal at the Ice Age Shoreline
Buried in Clay, Bound by Genes: A 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian and His Unexpected Legacy
Whose Pasts Matter? How U.S. Media Skews Global Archaeology Coverage
The Edge of Necessity: How 430,000-Year-Old Stone Flakes Reveal Human Adaptability in Ancient Greece
The Ancient Glamour and Grave Truths of Iran's Deep Past
Mammoths, Boomerangs, and Ritual Bones
What Pottery Taught Us: Women, Knowledge, and the True Connectors of Papua New Guinea's South Coast
Ochre as Craft: When Early Humans Turned Pigment into Precision
A Disease Older Than Empire: Leprosy's Ancient American Past
How Africa Forged Our Species' Global Reach
How Ancient Seafarers Brought a Sacred Grain to the Pacific’s Edge
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
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
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 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
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
Bones of Contention: What Fossil Hands Reveal About Our Ancient Grip
The Obsidian Nexus: Trade, Ritual, and Power in the Mexica Empire
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
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
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
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
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
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
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