To craft Oldowan tools, ancient human relatives at Nyayanga transported stones over long distances 600,000 years earlier than previously thought
Ancient architecture redesigned by cold: climate change has influenced the course of civilizations and daily life as well
Inkan commoners – not just elites – wove khipus, knot-based recordkeeping systems; the study is published in Science Advances
Extreme droughts did always not coincide with Mayan abandonment of sites, such as Chichén Itzá, according to a new study published in Science Advances
Archaeologists use X-rays to distinguish iron from different periods of America’s colonial past; a new study has been published in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology
Livestock played a role in prehistoric plague infections: Yersinia pestis genome has been discovered in 4,000-year-old sheep tooth at Arkaim
Archaeologists find oldest evidence of humans on Sulawesi – who they were remains a mystery: Early Pleistocene stone artefacts from Calio
A new study reconstructs the genetic history and interactions of populations in the Southern Caucasus over time, from the Early Bronze Age (circa 3500 BCE) to after the Migration Period (circa 500 CE)
Farming did not lead to entrenched economic inequality in ancient Carpathian communities; the study published in Science Advances
The Palaeolithic site of Trou Al’Wesse in Modave provides insights about the settlement of the first Homo sapiens populations in north-western Europe around 40,000 years ago
4,000-year-old teeth record the earliest traces of people chewing psychoactive betel nuts, from Burial 11 at Nong Ratchawat
Hominins had a taste for high-carb plants long before they had the teeth to eat them, providing first evidence of behavioral drive in the human fossil record
The secrets of rare Iron Age Glenfield Cauldrons have been revealed through archaeological investigation and replica creation
Is this what 2,500-year-old honey from a Greek shrine in Paestum looks like? A study in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
Black Death offers window into how childhood malnutrition affects adult health, according to a new study published in Science Advances
Human teeth unearthed at Hualongdong, China, offer fresh insights into hominin diversity in Asia during the late Middle Pleistocene
Neanderthal remains have high nitrogen levels likely because they munched on maggots, according to a new study in Science Advances
A reexamination of ancient human migration routes out of Africa; a study published in the journal Comptes Rendus Géoscience
Culinary traditions were largely unaffected at the time of the dispersal of millet and rice agriculture from Korea to Japan
Teenage diaries from Stalin’s Russia reveal boys’ struggles with love, famine and Soviet pressure to achieve; the study has been published in the journal Slavic Review
