A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

Mammoth hunting and the exploitation of mammoth resources is one of the most characteristic features of the Gravettian culture in Central Europe. The …

The woolly rhinoceros was a prominent Ice Age megafaunal species, and there is limited knowledge regarding its origin and responses to past glacial cycles. We sequenced 29 mitochondrial and 14 nuclear...

A site in China is just the third to give us an insight into the way the enigmatic Denisovans lived. The archaeology at the site suggests the ancient humans were skilled hunters, although their stone tools were relatively simple

Researchers used DNA and isotope analysis to figure out how the large cats survived in the far north.

Northeast Africa and Southwest Asia present a rich record of hominin occupations between ca. 100 and 50 thousand years ago (ka) at a critical biogeogr…

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Homo floresiensis scavenged Stegodon and did not use fire, challenging previous claims of advanced behavior.

This study tests the evolutionary processes shaping the cranial morphology of the genus Homo. The authors report a limited role of gradual directional selection and underscore the importance of stabil...

PHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end — without ever being opened.

Our knowledge of the Early Upper Palaeolithic occupation in northern central Europe is very limited, and recent research at the open-air site of Friedrichsdorf-Seulberg in Hesse, Germany, provides im....

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...

Paleogenomic analysis of cave lions spanning >100 kya shows that extinct cave lions formed a long-diverged evolutionary lineage from modern lions, with distinct demographic histories and lineage-speci...

Nature - Government-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried in the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a...

The Middle Palaeolithic of the Central Levant remains a topic of ongoing debates concerning cultural variability, technological traditions, and homini…

Scientists are learning that sperm whales communicate in ways that may mirror human language.

The prehistoric occupation of Dhofar, Southern Oman, was facilitated by the Indian Summer Monsoon, which engulfs the Dhofar Mountains and the Salalah …

Measuring technological complexity across species, as well as across temporal and spatial scales, is an ongoing challenge among authors who work on primatological, archaeological, and/or ethnographic ...

The use of Nassariidea shells as personal ornaments is attested to an increasing number of Middle Stone Age (MSA) archaeological sites in northern and southern Africa. The chronological extent of this...

Scientific Reports - Faunal exploitation at the elephant hunting site of Lehringen, Germany, 125,000 years ago

Beaver-induced hydrological change turned wetland into a net carbon sink with an approximate carbon storage of 100 tons per year, according to a comprehensive carbon budget analysis from a beaver wetl...

The discovery of the earliest clay ornaments in Southwest Asia (15,000 years ago) made by children and adults is reported.

El análisis de los molares fosilizados de cuatro ejemplares de Palaeoloxodon antiquus, el mayor mamífero terrestre del Pleistoceno europeo, ha permitido a un equipo internacional de investigadores rec...

This study investigates the representation of cave lions (Panthera [leo] spelaea) in Upper Paleolithic art in France, dated between 40,000 and 12,000 …

Scientific Reports - Natural selection and language genes in humans

Spinosaurs have sometimes been portrayed as swimmers or divers, but a new species of these dinosaurs bolsters the idea that they were more like gigantic herons

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

A hand stencil painted on a cave wall on a small island off the coast of Sulawesi more than 67,800 years ago suggests a very early occupation of Wallacea.

With its attribution to Paranthropus, a 2.6-million-year-old partial mandible expands the range of the genus into the Afar region of Ethiopia and adds to our understanding of hominin evolution in east...

Scientific Reports - Assessing contemporary Arctic habitat availability for a woolly mammoth proxy