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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

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