Study of the oldest human remains — the so-called “Archaic” or “Pre-Arawak” people — from Puerto Rico reveal a complex cultural landscape since 1800BC.
Three protracted droughts — each lasting between 25 and 90 years — likely spelled the end for Indus megacities, around 4,200 years ago
Research into grape pips found from the excavated Byzantine monastery of Avdat (Oboda), in the Negev Highlands (Israel), hints at the origins of the Gaza wine
Fossilized soot and charcoal from torches dating back more than 8,000 years make it possible to reconstruct the history of the Nerja Cave
Searching for ancient bears in an Alaskan cave led to an important human discovery: Tatóok yík yées sháawat (Young lady in cave), living 3,000 years ago is in fact closest related to present-day Tlingit
Geochemical analyses of stone artefacts reveal long-distance voyaging among Pacific Islands during the last millennium
Conclusive evidence of chicken breeding in the Yayoi period of Japan has been discovered from the Karako-Kagi site
The contents of six sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins — which were imaged using a non-invasive technique — are described in a study
A new grammatical database, Grambank, documents the reveals accelerating loss of language diversity, in a study published in Science Advances
Allard Pierson starts international research on twelve mummy portraits, two from its own collection and ten from partner museums in Europe