Nature Communications - The recently extinct thylacine was Australia’s largest marsupial predator and famously likened to dog-family carnivorans such as wolves. However, here the authors show...

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Little is known of the Homo sapiens population history in late prehistoric northeastern Africa. Using inner ear morphology from 148 individuals, this study documents 40.000 years of human evolution, i...

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Serving the truth or the state?

This is a Research Associate position to assist in palaeobiological research conducted as part of the project “New Insights Into Early Mammal Evolution From Exceptional Scottish Fossils” funded by the...

Research Assistant/Research Associate in Statistical Modelling in Archaeology (Fixed Term) in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge.

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Delivering a human baby is not uniquely difficult.

Ancient DNA can be preserved on materials from archaeological floor deposits such as bones, sediments and artifacts. Here, the authors investigate whether Palaeolithic wall art can preserve human DNA ...

Applications are invited for a 12-month Research Assistant position on the NG'IPALAJEM project, funded by the ERC. The project aims at collecting new palaeontological, archaeological and geological da...

PhD student position in Population Genomics , Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

View details and apply for this Lecturer in Archaeology ​(Education and Scholarship) vacancy in Exeter. Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) This full-time post is avail...

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Title: Associate or Senior Editor – Nature Reviews Earth & Environment Locations: Madrid or Shanghai (Hybrid) Application Deadline: June 25, 2026 About Springer Nature Springer Nature is one of th...

The University of Maine is a community of more than 11,900 undergraduate and graduate students, and 2,500 employees located on the Orono campus, the regional campus in Machias, and throughout the stat...

Hominin dispersal out of Africa may have corresponded with exchanges of other fauna out of Africa. Here, the authors examine taxonomic and functional similarities in Eurasian and African fossil commun...

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Job Title: Reporter, Nature Location: Washington DC or New York (Hybrid Working Model) Application Deadline: March 27, 2026 About Springer Nature Springer Nature is one of the leading publishers of re...

This month’s coverage of [global sporting event in Italy] is underwritten by Runners’ Edge Alaska. We sincerely appreciate their support of the site. By Devin L. Ward, Ph.D. This recent…

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held assumption about stone tool use.

Here, the authors present genome-wide aDNA from 138 Early Bronze Age individuals from Lower Austria. Their findings point to a patrilocal society with non-strict female exogamic practices and long-dis...

Studying ancient sea creatures’ snoozing habits could shed light on the origins of sleep.

Here the authors combine microstructural and chemical analysis of building materials collected from an active construction site in Pompeii prior to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 ...

Here, the authors present archaeology of the Namorotukunan site in Kenya’s Turkana Basin that demonstrates adaptive shifts in hominin tool-making behaviour spanning 300,000 years and increasing enviro...