First sentence ever written in Canaanite language discovered in an ivory comb from Lachish: it’s a plea to eradicate beard lice
An old bone links a lost American Parrot, the thick-billed parrot, to an ancient indigenous bird trade in the American Southwest
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions
A study, published in the journal PNAS, discovers a surprising relationship between the teeth and the evolution of pregnancy
Astronomers confirm past solar eclipses in northern Japan first mentioned in indigenous folklore and historical documents
A Stone Age child buried with bird feathers, plant fibers and fur in Majoonsuo, situated in the municipality of Outokumpu in Eastern Finland
Novel insights into the daily lives of early industrial women workers: what hand skeletons tell about working in the 19th century
European Middle Pleistocene populations had similar dental traits, suggesting that the settlement of Europe was the product of intermittent dispersals into Europe from a “mother” population
Ancient DNA pushes the herring trade back to the Viking age; a new study on the subject has been published on PNAS
‘Virtual autopsy’ identifies a 17th century mummified toddler, who – though born to a powerful family – was malnourished, hidden from the sun and sick with pneumonia