A study finds that Neanderthals had comparable insect trace evidence as gorillas and western chimpanzees.

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The revised age may help make sense of 2-million-year-old stone tools elsewhere in China.

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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...

Authentication and attribution of works on paper remain persistent challenges in cultural heritage, particularly when the available reference corpus is small and stylistic cues are primarily expressed...

An international scientific team has determined that a hand stencil discovered in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is at least 67,800 years old, making it the oldest reliably dated manifest...

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Patterns and processes of social cognition underlie much of the behavioral and ecological flexibility and adaptive capacity that characterizes the pri…

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The Crimean Peninsula contains several important Middle and Upper Paleolithic sites, including Starosele, Kabazi II, and Siuren I. The region has b...

Nature Communications - Several possible points of origin have been proposed for the spread of ceramic technology in Saharan Africa between 11–10,000 years ago. Here, the authors...

A conversation with the legendary evolutionary thinker and archaeologist, Eudald Carbonell.

Who and where were the Proto-Indo-Europeans? Almost 450 languages spoken by 4 billion people descend from their tongue—and J.P. Mallory has been on a life-long journey to reconstruct their world. A de...

The relationships of fossils from deep time in China may help reveal ancestral connections for the Denisovans

The agricultural societies of the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Ancient Near East made strategic resource management decisions that unequivocally prioritized viticulture over olive cultivation during pe...

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Lithic weapon points occasionally found in Middle Palaeolithic Neanderthal sites are large and do not differ in size, shape or type from those used in other activities such as butchering or plant gath...

Today, Apple TV+ announced “Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age,” narrated by Tom Hiddleston.

A University of Kansas researcher has spent years studying "aquaterra"—his term for regions around the world once populated by ancient humans that today are submerged under water due to sea-level chan...

US media coverage of archaeology shows geographic disparities, with archaeology of China/Taiwan less likely to receive coverage.

Neanderthals intensively processed a minimum of 172 large mammals for grease and marrow fat, 125,000 years ago.

The review presents a critical examination of the British Museum’s Legion exhibition from the perspective of a British-Iraqi, female archaeologist. While acknowledging that the exhibition brought toge...

The mechanisms driving the spatial organisation of early human societies in Africa are typically addressed through climate variables [1][1]-[3][2]. However, genetic and archaeological studies have als...

Curiously uniform dimples on the teeth of ancient hominins may give scientists a new way to trace their origins and relationships.

Analysis of ancient DNA, stable isotope data and archaeological evidence from the Fujia archaeological site in eastern China suggests it was populated by a matrilineal Neolithic community between 2750 and 2500 bc.

This report presents new evidence that Line 9 of the Mamari Tablet encodes a 13-moon sidereal calendar rooted in Polynesian star-based timekeeping. Through visual glyph analysis, symbolic pairing, and...