Historical violence in Tasmania: Victorian collector traded human Aboriginal remains and Tasmanian tigers for scientific accolades
An interdisciplinary project led by primatologist Gisela Kopp is using genetic analysis to determine the geographic origin of mummified baboons found in ancient Egypt
Stone age artists carved detailed human and animal tracks in rock art from the Doro !Nawas Mountains in central Western Namibia; the study is published on PLoS ONE
Archaelogists revael the largest palaeolithic cave art site at Cova (or Cueva) Dones, in Eastern Iberia; the study is published on Antiquity
Shattering the myth of men as hunters and women as gatherers: data from foraging societies show that women often hunt large game skillfully
Evidence of ancient breeding of scarlet macaws in today’s New Mexico in the 1100s, according to a study in PNAS Nexus
The contents of six sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins — which were imaged using a non-invasive technique — are described in a study
The world’s first horse riders: researchers discovered evidence by studying the remains of human skeletons found in burial mounds called kurgans
A Bronze Age well at Petsas House contents reveal the history of animal resources (dogs, cattle, goats, sheep) in Mycenae, Greece
Neanderthals hunted elephants: Earliest evidence found of humans killing elephants for food; the study is published in Science Advances