The modern custom of chewing betel nuts is practiced by around 1 in 10 people worldwide, yet the earliest beginnings of this widespread drug use habit are unknown. We report rare skeletal remains of…

This 1,400-year-old Maya urn features skulls, underworld gods, and a deceased ancestor dressed like a jaguar.

The site has seen remarkable discoveries over 30 years, and excavations have opened a new unexplored chamber.

A new analysis of skulls from a 14th-century battle in Sweden reveals a spiked club inflicted the death blow.

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Antoine Balzeau and colleagues (2026) have just published a large analysis and open-access dataset comparing 75 human brains and endocasts.

Containers are ubiquitous and universal across all present-day societies. The substantial increase in the quantity and diversity of containers in the …

More blizzards hit Colorado between March 12 and March 18 than any other week, and there have been some big ones in recent years.

In this fun and “soupy” episode, hosts Cara and Chris chat with Dr. Melanie Beasley about putrefied meat, maggots, stable isotopes, and media attention at the most inconvenient times. Dr. Beasley dire

A 400,000-year-old site excavated in England reveals signs of deliberate fires made using the mineral iron pyrite to produce sparks.

Stephan Lautenschlager1,2 & Thomas Clements3 1School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. 2The Lapworth Museum of Geology, Birmingham, UK. 3…

Bone tools shaped by knapping found within Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania precede any other evidence of systematic bone tool production by more than 1 million years.

The 3D reconstruction of the lower limb of Homo naledi and comparative analyses of the knee reveal remarkably small joint sizes for its body size, a hyper-elongated tibia (and fibula), and a high cru...

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