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What Elephant Teeth Tell Us About Neanderthal Hunters
Strontium isotopes in 125,000-year-old molars reveal the surprisingly distant origins of the giant prey Neanderthals hunted at a German lakeside site
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A Bronze Age Loom, Preserved by Fire
Charred pine timbers and esparto ropes from a 3,500-year-old blaze in southeastern Spain offer a rare direct look at how Bronze Age weavers worked — and…
Mar 16
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When a Skeleton Lies About Its Age
The problem with reading disease from bone is that disease changes the bone you're reading
Mar 13
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The Mythological Tapestry of Humanity: Unraveling Ancient Stories through Genes and Geography
Jan 27, 2025
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The Daughters of Çatalhöyük: What Ancient DNA Reveals About Female-Centered Life in a Neolithic City
Jun 27, 2025
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Tracing Ancient Roots: How Iron Age Britain Centered on Women
Jan 16, 2025
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Humans Arrived in North America 37,000 Years Ago
Aug 5, 2022
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Ancient DNA Reveals Genetic and Linguistic Divides in the Bronze Age Mediterranean
Dec 27, 2024
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New research challenges the long-held belief that horses were introduced to the American West by Europeans
Apr 10, 2023
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What a Fractured Skull Can Tell You About How Someone Died
A new bioengineering framework helps archaeologists distinguish violent from accidental cranial trauma in the archaeological record.
Mar 13
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The Biology of Musicality: What Two Decades of Cross-Species Research Reveals About Why Humans Make Music
Music may not be a cultural invention layered onto a silent brain — it may be something older and stranger than that.
Mar 12
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What a Jewish Temple in Egypt Was Doing with a Zoroastrian Fire Altar
New research from Elephantine shows the reach of Achaemenid religious culture into diaspora communities — and complicates tidy stories about religious…
Mar 12
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A Young Man in the Philippines, 2,000 Years Ago, Was Slowly Coming Apart at the Seams
A Metal Period burial at Nagsabaran reveals how scurvy and hip ankylosis combined to reshape one life — and how a community responded.
Mar 11
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Carbon in the Dark: The First Radiocarbon Dates for Cave Art in the Dordogne
A team at Font-de-Gaume found something no one had bothered to look for — and it changed what we can know about Paleolithic painting in southwestern…
Mar 10
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The Birds That Crossed the Andes: Ancient DNA and the Pre-Inca Parrot Trade
How feathers from a 1,000-year-old coastal tomb revealed a continent-spanning live animal trade that predated Inca roads by centuries.
Mar 10
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What a Bone Needle Actually Tells You About the Past
The story of needles and awls is more tangled than archaeologists assumed — and that's exactly what makes them interesting.
Mar 10
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