Early Hominin toolmaking at the Melka Wakena site, in Ethiopia, sheds light on Engineering ingenuity; a study published in PLoS ONE
Water and gruel – not bread: the diet of early Neolithic farmers at Frydenlund, Fuenen, in Scandinavia; the study in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
12,000-year old stones from the Nahal-Ein Gev II dig site in northern Israel may be spindle whorls, a very early evidence of wheel-like technology
Soii Havzak, a multi-layered archaeological site in the Zeravshan Valley, central Tajikistan, shedding rare light on early human settlement in the region
Coastal and underwater cave sites in southern Sicily contain important new clues about the path and fate of early human migrants to the island
The latest findings to shed light on the Neanderthals at Prado Vargas: over two thousand remains of animals and stone tools
Tool marks are evidence for butchery of Neosclerocalyptus (giant armadillo-like mammals) in Argentina 21,000 years ago
New geological datings place the first European hominids at Orce, in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, 1.3 million years ago
UMA scientists find a natural quicksand trap dated to more than one million years ago in the ‘elephant graveyard’ of Fuente Nueva 3, Orce
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