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
When ideas travel further than people: how the Neolithic way of life spread from the Fertile Crescent; a new study published in the journal Science
Archaeologists uncover massive 1000-year-old Native American fields at the Sixty Islands archaeological site along the Menominee River, in Northern Michigan, that defy limits of farming
Revelations on the history of leprosy: Leprosy existed in America long before the arrival of Europeans, according to a new study published in Science
A study reveals the continuous evolutionary history of rice from wild to domesticated over an astonishing span of 100,000 years, confirming that China is the birthplace of rice (Oryza sativa)
Early ancestral bottleneck in the early to middle Pleistocene could’ve spelled the end for humans, a study published on Science
Scientists zero in on timing, causes of Ice Age mammal extinctions in Southern California: a new study published in Science
An extreme glacial cooling event around 1.1 million years ago challenges the idea of continuous early human occupation of Europe
Linguistics and genetics combine to suggest a new hybrid hypothesis for the origin of the Indo-European languages
Ethical challenges of studying historical DNA that connects living people to enslaved and free African Americans at Catoctin Furnace, an early ironworks (18th–19th century)
