Neanderthal and modern human children living during the Upper Palaeolithic may have faced similar levels of childhood stress but at different developmental stages
Multiple temporary campsites reveal that ancient people hunted gomphotheres, extinct elephants, at Tagua Tagua Lake in Chile, 12,000 years ago
The Dendra panoply, an Ancient Mycenaean armour, has been tested by Marines and pronounced suitable for extended combat
Indigenous groups in the Pacific Northwest were intentionally harvesting edible camas bulbs at optimal stages of the plant’s maturation as far back as 3,500 years ago
The analysis of fat traces in over one hundred pottery vessels reveals deep changes in prehistoric Central European culinary traditions
Researchers established a chronology for Dispilio, by combining radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology and information on cosmic particles from Miyake events
The first lithic study of level VI-B at the Mumba site in Tanzania, a settlement by groups of Homo sapiens present in the Lake Eyasi region between 109,000 and 131,000 years ago
A violent blaze at Tossal de Baltarga, possibly linked to the Carthaginian army crossing the Pyrenees to fight the Romans during the Second Punic War
84 teeth have been analyzed to show the dietary practices of the agropastoral communities of the northeast Iberian Peninsula
What we do know is that the Hitra man lived in a very turbulent period. Up to that point, most people lived as hunter-gatherers
