Studies of cultural transmission—whether approached by archaeological or ethnographic means—have made great strides in identifying formal teaching and learning arrangements, which in turn can be close...

– by Murillo Pagnotta Symbolic artefacts as tools of the mind In the study of human evolution, evidence of symbolic behaviour is often taken to indicate when the mind of our deep past relatives became...

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Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...

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Vietnam's weather agency has recorded its highest level of rainfall for a 24-hour period in the historic city of Hue.

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Scientific Reports - Atypical tool and object use in wild immature chimpanzees reveals developmental pathways to innovation

The discovery of a stone long overlooked in a German museum suggests that Ice Age communities experimented with vivid hues far earlier than scholars believed.

Two recent studies shine light on the earliest known artistic usages of blue pigment

The 8.2 ka event had a major but regionally variable climatic impact in the Northern Hemisphere. In Denmark, it impacted lakes and rivers, which were essential landscape features for contemporaneous foragers. There is also evidence for a marked increase in sand drift...

La mayor base de datos de nudos documentados a lo largo de la historia revela que la sociedades más alejadas usaron las mismas ataduras.

Following a successful year with four active cross-faculties 3-2-1-Go! Collaborative Theme Groups, the Interdisciplinary Taskforce at Aarhus University and AIAS have selected two new groups who will j...

Large volcanic eruptions have a major cooling impact on the climate

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Knots have been a fixture for thousands of years. A recent database finds that many cultures share the same ones. Image credit: Shutterstock / UVgreen.

Completely preserved canid skeletons dating from the Pleistocene are rare finds. Here, we describe such a unique discovery from Baume Traucade, a cave…

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