Llamas may have been domesticated in the semi-arid North of Chile prior to the Incas, according to multi-proxy analysis of early camelid remains
Oldest whale bone tools discovered, excavated from sites around the Bay of Biscay in Spain, along with bones from Santa Catalina Cave
A sweeping study of 371 archaeological monuments, spanning 7,000 years, in the arid Dhofar region of Oman, in South Arabia
A special issue in “Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B” (2025) reframes the origins of domestication
Dating of Schöningen spears revised to 200,000 years; world’s oldest complete wooden hunting weapons are 100,000 years younger than previously claimed
Women from Bronze Age Nubia already carried heavy loads on their heads, according to a new study in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Neolithic agricultural Revolution in southern Levant linked to climate-driven wildfires and soil erosion, according to a new study in the Journal of Soils and Sediments
Primate evolution comes into sharper focus – new radioisotopic dating, Argon-Argon (⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar), marks a breakthrough in the study of volcanic deposits
Fire in the Ice Age: evidence from the Epigravettian at Korman’ 9, Middle Dniester Valley, Ukraine; a study published in Geoarchaeology
A fossil mandible was discovered on the seabed of the Penghu Channel in Taiwan; it belonged to a male Denisovan