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
The first humans who settled in Scandinavia more than 10,000 years ago left their DNA behind in ancient chewing gums, which are masticated lumps made from birch bark pitch
The discovery of Alcmonavis poeschli has implications for the debate over whether active flapping birds arose from gliding birds
Most amber inclusions are organisms from the forest. It is very rare to find sea life: a new study now reports the first known ammonite trapped in amber
Abrupt climate change some 8,000 years ago led to a dramatic decline in early South American populations, suggests new UCL research.
