Describing previously unknown aspects of Copper Age ceremonial clothing: the beads from the Tholos de Montelirio
The LandCover6K working group looks to the past to understand the impacts of human land use in South Asia; a new study published in PLoS ONE
Evidence of cannibalism 18,000 years ago, from Maszycka Cave; the study has been published in Scientific Reports
Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV): an Eneolithic population dated 4.500-3.500 BCE and a missing link in Indo-European languages’ history found, according to a study published in Nature
Ancient engravings shed light on early human symbolic thought and complexity in the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic
Discovery of a unique drainage and irrigation system that gave way to the “Neolithic Revolution” at Llanos de Moxos, in the Amazon
Early humans influenced the availability of meat and scavenging animals, in ecosystems 130,000 to 20,000 years ago
Homo erectus at the Olduvai Gorge adapted to extreme climatic conditions, challenging our preconceptions of the adaptability of the earliest hominins
Volcanic eruption caused Neolithic people at Vasagård, on the Danish island Bornholm, to sacrifice unique “sun stones”
Early Hominin toolmaking at the Melka Wakena site, in Ethiopia, sheds light on Engineering ingenuity; a study published in PLoS ONE