Recent archaeological finds of ancient preserved apple seeds across Europe and West Asia combined with historical, paleontological, and recently published genetic data are presenting a fascinating new narrative for one of our most familiar fruits
A unique bark shield, thought to have been constructed with wooden laths during the Iron Age, has provided new insight into the construction and design of prehistoric weaponry
What kind of beer did the Pharaohs drink? The pottery used to produce beer in antiquity served as the basis for this new research
Anthropologists discovered a tool made out of high-quality translucent jadeite with an intact rosewood handle at a site where the ancient Maya processed salt in Belize
Which came first, the pigs or the pioneers? In Barbados, that has been a historical mystery ever since the first English colonists arrived on the island in 1627 to encounter what they thought was a herd of wild European pigs
Anatomically modern humans at the Klasies River Cave, in South Africa’s southern Cape, were roasting and eating plant starch
The human environmental footprint is not only deep, but old. Now, that story is digitally available through an open-access data platform: ZooArchNet
Neanderthals and modern humans diverged at least 800,000 years ago, substantially earlier than indicated by most DNA-based estimates
A network of fish ponds supported a permanent human settlement in the seasonal drylands of Bolivia more than one thousand years ago
A new study, concerning the cave of Bàsura at Toirano and its fossil traces, identifies crawling behaviours from around 14,000 years ago
