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Papua New Guinea has announced the Western Manus Marine Protected Area - a no-take zone covering 200,000 km² of the Pacific Ocean.

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Paleoclimate Statistics and Dynamics (Fixed Term) in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge.

TBH1 was a relatively healthy 35-year-old living in prehistoric Southeast Asia, presumably doing cave guy stuff like hunting and foraging.

Rock paintings around the western tip of New Guinea are extensive but poorly understood. This paper describes rock art around the northern Raja Ampat Islands, just off the coast of western New Guinea....

Background Multiple factors, including the context (human or non-human) in which evolution is learned and whether explicit efforts are made to try to reduce the conflict between evolution and religion...

Humans established a wild population of brown forest wallabies in the Raja Ampat Islands thousands of years ago for their meat and fur in one of the earliest known species translocations

For a long time, scientific discussions of the behavioral, technological, cultural, and cognitive complexity of Homo sapiens have been Europe- and Africa-centered for their abundant archaeological di...

New archaeological and ancient genomic data from humans in Papua New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago shed light on regional human admixture and genetic isolation over the past 2,500 years.

American Museum of Natural History

With a little guidance and a lot of practice, even you can make stone tools the way our oldest ancestors did – and learn to recognize the signs of a deliberately made tool.

The move is the latest from Elon Musk’s unofficial cost-cutting agency to exert influence beyond traditional federal agencies.

Texas Tech scientist Katharine Hayhoe has spent the last 20 years grappling with the question of how to convince skeptics that global temperatures are rising and that climate change poses a threat to ...

Denisovans are an extinct hominin group defined by ancient genomes of Middle to Late Pleistocene fossils from southern Siberia. Although genomic evidence suggests their widespread distribution through...

Le vendredi 4 avril 2025, Pierre NOIRET, un homme âgé de 59 ans, a été vu pour la dernière fois à l’Université de Liège située Place du Vingt Août à Liège. Depuis, il ne s’est plus manifesté. Pierre m...

The Last Glacial maximum (LGM), spanning from 26.5 to 19 thousand years before present (ka bp), is a period of extreme climatic degradation associated with reduced biomass production and resource str...

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

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Improving our understanding of ancient herd management requires increasing the number of species-specific identifications of caprine material. Differe…

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For much of the Pliocene and Pleistocene, multiple hominin species coexisted in the same regions of eastern and southern Africa. Due to the limitations of the skeletal fossil record, questions regardi...

As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic, Briana Pobiner from the Smithsonian Institution will give a talk on ‚The Role of Scavenging in Hominin Dietary Evolution‚ on...