Cutmarks on a 4,000-year-old Egyptian skull could indicate an attempt at operating on excessive tissue growth or to learn more about cancer
Revealed: face of Shanidar Z, a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from the cave where species supposedly buried their dead
Movement of crops, animals played a key role in domestication, as a long-term gene flow between wild and domestic species was much more common than previously appreciated
Must Farm: study reveals ‘cozy domesticity’ of prehistoric stilt-house dwellers in England’s ancient marshland
People living in ancient Eastern Arabia appear to have developed resistance to malaria following the appearance of agriculture in the region around five thousand years ago
New findings from Interamna Lirenas, traditionally written off as a failed backwater in Central Italy, change our understanding of Roman history, its excavators believe
‘Bone biographies’ reveal life and times of medieval England’s common people: the hard-knock lives of those who lived in Cambridge
Historical violence in Tasmania: Victorian collector traded human Aboriginal remains and Tasmanian tigers for scientific accolades
Early whaling, before the 19th century, was enough for at least two species to disappear completely from European waters
Researchers identify the oldest pieces of Baltic amber found on the Iberian Peninsula: imports began over 5,000 years ago Baltic amber is a…