Teeth and bone fragments unearthed in a cave in China, along with animal bones and stone tools, help paint a picture of Denisovan life.

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The government plans to cut university subsidy for teaching archaeology by 50%, yet it’s never been more relevant to society.

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology

This paper questions whether forms of female mobility and their relation to kinship were uniform throughout later European prehistory. Patrilocality has become the primary way in which sex-based diffe...

Zuvor hatte es verschiedenste Mutmassungen gegeben, warum die Menschen in der Altsteinzeit keine blaue und grüne Farbe herstellten. Es zeigt sich: Möglicherweise kamen die Pigmente lediglich in versch...

The campaigner, a

In Dinant, Wallonia, scientists from Ghent University (UGent) and artists have presented a reconstruction of the face and living environment of a...

Cave sites were frequently reused throughout the Upper Palaeolithic, with many sites within south-western Europe having deep chronologies of activity. The repeated engagement with the same caves, or s...

New research transports us back to the shadowy firelight of ancient caves, imagining the minds and feelings of the artists

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