Dargan Shelter: Australia’s oldest occupied Ice Age cave found at high elevation in Blue Mountains; the study is published in Nature Human Behaviour
Fire in the Ice Age: evidence from the Epigravettian at Korman’ 9, Middle Dniester Valley, Ukraine; a study published in Geoarchaeology
A new study reveals a long-isolated North African human lineage in the Central Sahara during the African Humid Period more than 7,000 years ago
Evidence of cannibalism 18,000 years ago, from Maszycka Cave; the study has been published in Scientific Reports
Archaeological remains at Swan Point and Hollembaek Hill, Alaska, show that people and the ancestors of today’s dogs began forming close relationships as early as 12,000 years ago
Ice Age teens from 25,000 years ago (Upper Paleolithic) went through similar puberty stages as modern-day adolescent; a new study in the Journal of Human Evolution
An ancient Neanderthal lineage from Grotte Mandrin remained isolated from other populations for over 50,000 years—up until the species extinction
To hunt in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes with Clovis points, not throwing spears, roughly 13,000 years ago
After the Ice Age, people returned to the Swabian Jura around 19,500 years ago, 3000 years earlier than previously thought; the study is in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
A new archive of ancient human brains, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, challenges misconceptions of soft tissue preservation
