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What Elephant Teeth Tell Us About Neanderthal Hunters

A Bronze Age Loom, Preserved by Fire

When a Skeleton Lies About Its Age

What a Fractured Skull Can Tell You About How Someone Died

The Biology of Musicality: What Two Decades of Cross-Species Research Reveals About Why Humans Make Music

What a Jewish Temple in Egypt Was Doing with a Zoroastrian Fire Altar

A Young Man in the Philippines, 2,000 Years Ago, Was Slowly Coming Apart at the Seams

Carbon in the Dark: The First Radiocarbon Dates for Cave Art in the Dordogne

The Birds That Crossed the Andes: Ancient DNA and the Pre-Inca Parrot Trade

What a Bone Needle Actually Tells You About the Past

Hadza Hunter-Gatherers Share Food Equally — But Mostly When They Have To

A 7.2-Million-Year-Old Femur from Bulgaria and the Origins of Human Walking

What Was Actually in the Pot

What Maya Reservoir Sediments Reveal About Sanitation, Mercury, and Urban Life at Ucanal

What Burial Mounds and Lake Temperatures Tell Us About Corn in Pre-Contact Michigan

Possible Arrowheads from 80,000 Years Ago in Uzbekistan Are Rewriting Where Homo sapiens Came From

The Maya Who Stayed: Wetland Farmers at the Edge of Collapse

The People the Urns Left Out: Genetics, Bones, and Burial in Late Bronze Age Central Germany

Little Foot's Face, Reconstructed at Last

The X Chromosome That Rewrote What We Know About Neanderthal Sex

What Mosquitoes Remember About Homo erectus

The Geometric Grammar of 60,000-Year-Old Ostrich Eggshells

The Goat That Remembered: Ancient DNA and Ireland's 3,000-Year Livestock Line

What Bones from Prehistoric Poland Reveal About Who Ate What — and Why It Mattered

The Human Breast as a Heating Pad: A New Hypothesis for an Old Puzzle

What the Soil Remembered: Microscopic Fibres and the Dressed Dead of Stone Age Scandinavia

What a Hunter-Gatherer Site on the Edge of Patagonia Reveals About Survival, Ritual, and Why People Stay

The Marks That Predate Writing by 35,000 Years

CT Scans of Inca Child Sacrifices Reveal New Details About Capacocha Rituals

The Gomolava Massacre: What a 2,800-Year-Old Mass Grave Reveals About Targeted Violence in Prehistoric Europe

7,000 Seal Impressions from a Forgotten Bureaucracy in the Central Zagros

The Golden Horde's DNA and the Myth of Genghis Khan's Genetic Legacy

Milk Residues in 9,000-Year-Old Pottery Are Rewriting the Story of Dairy in Southwest Asia

Neanderthal Extinction and the Preeclampsia Hypothesis

How Early Farmers Accidentally Bred Wheat to Fight

'Ubeidiya Is at Least 1.9 Million Years Old, and That Changes the Picture of Early Human Dispersal

The Yunxian Skulls Are 1.77 Million Years Old. That Changes Things.

The Grandparents' Room: Finding the Elderly in an Iron Age House

Who Gets Buried Together on a Stone Age Island

One People, Two Bloodlines: What Ancient DNA Tells Us About the Jomon's Origins

What Two Neolithic Cemeteries in Hungary Tell Us About How Gender Gets Made

The Foragers Who Shaped Bell Beaker Europe

When Everyone Brought Their Own Light: Chalcolithic Cornets and the Problem of Ritual Production

The Cave That Kept Calling Them Back

Bird Droppings and Political Power: How Guano Shaped a Pre-Inca Kingdom

When Black Teeth Marked a Kingdom: Iron Age Vietnam and the Chemistry of Identity

When the Climate Got Better, the Plants Disappeared

The Wetland Exception: How Hunter-Gatherers Held Out in Europe's Heartland

The Chin Is an Accident: What 500 Ape Skulls Tell Us About Human Uniqueness

The Selfish Origin of Sharing: What Hadza Hunter-Gatherers Reveal About Human Egalitarianism

The Site That Stopped Working: Bison Hunting and Drought in Late Holocene Montana

The Crossing

A Tiny Copper Drill Sat in a Museum Drawer for a Century. It Just Rewrote Egyptian Tool History

Severed Heads at the Southern Border

The Problem With Paleolithic Art That's Less Than a Millimeter Deep

The Left Arms in the Pit

The Oldest Sewn Hide in the World Came from an Oregon Cave

The Deer Mask at the Edge of the Farming World

The Uniqueness Problem: Cave Burials in the Great Basin

When AI Imagines Neanderthals, It Dreams of the 1960s

The Finger Ratio Paradox: What Newborn Hand Proportions Tell Us About the Cost of Getting Smarter

When Climate Doesn't Explain Everything: Two Toolkits, Two Worlds

The Cost of Fire: How Burns Shaped the Human Body

What a 3,500-Year-Old Mummification Balm Smells Like

The Italian Olive Goes Back Further Than Anyone Expected

The People Who Never Left

From Mammoth Ivory to Clovis Points: Alaska’s Quiet Role in the Peopling of the Americas

A Bed of Sand for a Goddess

The Last Ride: Horses, Power, and the Making of a Final Ritual in Iron Age Iberia

Placed in Clay, Remembered in Silence

Horns in the Dark

The Short Bones That Spoke: Diagnosing a Rare Genetic Disorder in a 12,000-Year-Old Family

Red Earth, Many Meanings: How Stone Age Finns Used Ochre to Mark Identity and Connection

The Prince and the Bear

The Forest on a Handle: How Early Humans in China Mastered Composite Tools

When the Ice Let Go: How Tiny Crystals Are Rewriting Stonehenge’s Origin Story

The Tools That Time Almost Erased: A 430,000-Year-Old Wooden Technology

When Stone Walls Sang: What San Rock Art Reveals About Dance, Trance, and Social Life

The Other Way We Got Our Meat

When Shellfish Skew the Clock

One Disorder, Many Genomes: What African-Ancestry Data Are Teaching Us About Schizophrenia

A Pathogen Older Than History: Tracing Treponemal Disease to Ancient Colombia

Above the Tree Line with Neanderthals

Milk on the Steppe

The Tiny Potato That Traveled Far

When Healing Meant Walking to a God

The Robust Hominin That Refused to Stay Put

The Elephant Bone That Sharpened Stone

The Oldest Human Signature on Stone

When Summer Returned, Humans Followed

A Skeleton Steps Out of the Shadows

What Ancient Teeth Remember

Blue-Green Ceramics in the Gobi

The Quiet Hills of Samos, Reconsidered

The Cost of Blue Stone

Harpoons Before History Remembered

When a King Spoke in Clay

A Cave That Refuses to Be Silent

At the Root of Our Family Tree, on the Moroccan Coast

Poison on the Wind

The Pigs That Traveled

The Genomes of the Great Steppe

Standing Up in the Sahel

A Tooth From a Different World

The Virus That Stayed

A Fire at the Foot of the Mountain