Neanderthals at two nearby caves, Amud and Kebara (Israel), butchered the same prey in different ways, suggesting local food traditions
Skull lesions in ancient forager-farmers likely indicate compromised immune systems, not infant-onset anemia; the study is published in Science Advances
The Song of Wade, by Geoffrey Chaucer: decoding a lost English legend, solving a mystery and revealing a medieval preacher’s meme
Interbreeding with Neanderthals may be responsible for modern-day brain condition, Chiari Malformation Type 1
Trade networks: the whole of the Eurasian demand for walrus ivory during the medieval period was heavily focused on Western Greenland
The Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine (CEMLM) shows that medieval medicine was smarter than you think – and weirdly similar to TikTok trends
The world-famous Girl with a Pearl Earring was most likely not commissioned by Vermeer’s male patron, but by a woman, the man’s wife
The origin and diversity of Greenland’s ancient sled dogs (or Qimmeq, pl. Qimmit), in a genetic study published in the journal Science
University of Houston archaeologists discover the tomb of Te K’ab Chaak, the first Maya ruler of the city of Caracol, in Belize
Where did Stone Age hunter-gatherers get the raw material for their tools in eSwatini? A study in the Journal of Archaeological Science
Hyperspectral imaging effectively discriminates rock blocks, sediment matrices, and fossil remains within the stratigraphic deposits of the Gran Dolina site (Atapuerca)
Egyptian donkeys may have been incorporated into ritual burials – while local donkeys were part of the menu – in the Early Bronze Age at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, in present-day Israel
In the Broken Group Islands off western British Columbia, shellfish populations have evaded large-scale commercialization and remained stable for the past 3,000 years
Uffizi Galleries: the Vasari Corridor welcomes more than fifty Roman busts, that now adorn the section above the Ponte Vecchio
The COST Action Managing Artificial Intelligence in Archaeology (MAIA) officially launched its network in September 2024
Light from Italy: From Fattori to Morandi – Masterpieces in dialogue from the Uffizi Galleries and the Latvian National Museum of Art, the exhibition
New discoveries from the Pleistocene-age Gantangqing site in southwestern China reveal a diverse collection of wooden tools dated from ~361,000 to 250,000 years ago
Regional disparities in US media coverage of archaeology research; a new study published in Science Advances
Research project at University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg in Frankfurt uncovers more Nazi plunder than expected
Researchers sequence first genome from ancient Egypt: DNA was extracted from the tooth of an individual buried in Nuwayrat
