Cranial traumas show dramatic increase as the first cities were being built: in the 12,000 years before antiquity, the share of violent death rose at first and then fell back
Researchers found unaltered agave plants cultivated by several early cultures including the Hohokam people, from southern Arizona north to the Grand Canyon
Evidence from the remains of 1918 flu pandemic victims contradicts long-held belief that healthy young adults were particularly vulnerable
New archaeological discoveries at the tomb of Meret-Neith in Abydos: the researchers found 5,000-year-old wine and other grave goods
Ancient Maya reservoirs, which used aquatic plants to filter and clean the water, “can serve as archetypes for natural, sustainable water systems to address future water needs”
The paper Cannibalism and burial in the late upper Palaeolithic: Combining archaeological and genetic evidence has been published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews
Use-wear analysis of grinding tools from Jebel Oraf shows subsistence and lifestyle in Neolithic Northern Saudi Arabia
Paleolithic humans occupied upland regions of inland Spain in even the coldest periods of the last Ice Age: the evidence comes from Charco Verde II
Bangarang, a film by Giulio Mastromauro: children can be loud, carefree, playful, unaware, violent. Even in Taranto, an industrial city in Southern Italy
Archaeologists at Hyrcania in the Judean Desert, unearthed a rare Byzantine Greek inscription paraphrasing a verse from Psalm 86