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
