An extreme glacial cooling event around 1.1 million years ago challenges the idea of continuous early human occupation of Europe
Contribution of cultural heritage values to steppe conservation on kurgans, ancient burial mounds of Eurasia; the study is published in Conservation Biology
4,000-year-old plague DNA found: the oldest cases to date in Britain; the paper is published in Nature Communications
Human ancestors preferred mosaic landscapes and high ecosystem diversity, according to a new study in the journal Science
Stone tools tell a story of three waves of migration of the earliest Homo sapiens into Europe, according to a new study published in PLoS ONE
Large-scale genomic analysis documents the migrations of Ice Age hunter-gatherers over a period of 30,000 years
Bow-and-arrow, technology of the first modern humans in Europe 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France; the study is on Science Advances
It sounds a little like Stone Age standup: A Denisovan and a human walk past a bees’ nest heavy with honeycomb. What happens next? Study offers new insight on what ancient noses smelled
Findings from 3,000-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal a complex trade network; the study is published in the most recent issue of Science Advances.
Ancient DNA is rarely well-preserved in fossils, so scientists need to recognize possible hybridization of early humans from skeletons
