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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