UD anthropology professor Sarah Lacy rebukes notion that only men were hunters in ancient, prehistoric times
Is the Melun Diptych, 15th century French painting, depicting an Acheulean handaxe, an ancient stone tool used by hominins?
A non-exploitative economy favoured richness and diversity of the Copper Age communities in the southern half of the Iberian Peninsula
For the first time, a new study by an international research team shows Neanderthals hunted cave lions and used the pelt of this dangerous carnivore
Coprolites reveal that the Huecoid and Saladoid cultures – two pre-Columbian cultures of the Caribbean – consumed a diversity of plants, with peanuts, papaya, maize, and even cotton and tobacco detected
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
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