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The Myth of Neolithic Monarchs
DNA and Megaliths Reveal an Egalitarian Revolution in Stone Age Ireland
43:29
Climate, Chaos, and Cooperation: How Shifting Environments May Have Forged Early Human Solidarity
New simulations suggest that environmental instability—not predictability—may have driven the evolution of human cooperation
12:55
A Face in the Rock: Tracing Early Human Symbolism in the South Caucasus
A Mesolithic figurine discovered in Damjili Cave sheds new light on prehistoric identities in the Kura River basin
17:03
The Marsh Ambush: What a 300,000-Year-Old Horse Hunt Reveals About Early Human Cooperation
A horse bone bed in northern Germany offers rare insight into the minds and methods of pre-modern humans—and how deep the roots of social intelligence…
18:08
Empire in a Shell: How Iron Age Craftspeople on the Carmel Coast Turned Snails into Royal Power
A sunbaked coastal promontory in northern Israel hides the story of an ancient industry that tinted the Mediterranean world purple—and changed how…
13:00
The Last Feast of the Bustards: Ritual, Memory, and the Decline of a Giant Bird
Fifteen thousand years ago in a Moroccan cave, early humans buried their dead—and dined on one of the world’s heaviest flying birds. The great bustard…
20:41
When the Sky Burned: How a Weakened Magnetic Field May Have Tilted the Fate of Early Humans
New reconstructions suggest Homo sapiens had the cultural tools to survive a global radiation spike 41,000 years ago—tools that Neanderthals may have…
10:05
Farming Inequality: How Ancient Land Use Split Societies
The Long Arc of Wealth, From Hand-Plowed Fields to Complex Hierarchies
19:52
Inequality, Endurance, and the Shape of Human Settlements
A new archaeological analysis reveals that wealth disparities and long-lasting settlements often went hand-in-hand—but not for the reasons you might…
11:49
The Architecture of Inequality
How 10,000 Years of House Sizes Tell the Story of Economic Divides
14:25
Rethinking Inequality: What 50,000 Ancient Homes Tell Us About Power, Wealth, and Human Choices
A new archaeological study finds inequality is neither inevitable nor uniform, challenging centuries of assumptions about how societies grow—and what…
14:06
Fire in the Cold: The Hidden Pyrotechnics of Ice Age Foragers
New evidence from Ukraine suggests Ice Age humans mastered fire in ways we’re only beginning to understand
25:59
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