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What Worked Human Remains Reveal About the Rise of Liangzhu’s First Cities
In the canals of China’s earliest urban society, archaeologists have found human bones shaped into cups, masks, and fragments. Their unfinished forms…
17 hrs ago
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13:36
When Giant Sloths Were Dinner: The Human Appetite That Helped End the Ice Age Giants
New evidence from Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay shows that early South Americans relied heavily on megafauna, reshaping the debate over human…
Oct 2
2
14:49
Why Males Die Younger: Evolution’s Imprint on Lifespan
A global study across 1,100 species shows that sex differences in longevity are written into the very fabric of biology, shaped by chromosomes…
Oct 2
2
18:02
When Farmers Gambled on Diversity: How Neolithic Communities in the Rhineland Transformed Their Fields
A new archaeobotanical study reveals how early European farmers shifted from einkorn and emmer to a more flexible, risk-spreading crop strategy nearly…
Oct 2
5
15:05
How Neanderthals Met the Ice Age on Every Front
New research shows that Homo neanderthalensis combined technology, anatomy, and physiology to withstand Ice Age extremes
Oct 1
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16:51
When the Ice Age Turned Blue: The First Azurite Pigment of Europe
A 13,000-year-old stone from Germany holds traces of the earliest blue pigment ever found in European prehistory, expanding our view of how humans…
Oct 1
2
13:37
Stones of Sun and Shadow: A Solstice Sanctuary in Iberia
How Iberian myths of fertility, death, and rebirth were carved into the land 2,500 years ago
Oct 1
2
14:53
September 2025
How Monumental Art Helped Humans Thrive in Arabia’s Harshest Desert
Twelve-thousand-year-old engravings in northern Arabia reveal how early desert communities used monumental art to mark water, memory, and survival.
Sep 30
2
13:56
How Humans Rewired the Animal World
Fossil evidence shows that agriculture and domestication reshaped mammal communities more than the Ice Age extinctions
Sep 30
2
13:46
How Copper Smelters in the Caucasus Pioneered the Knowledge that Led to Iron
Reanalysis of a 3,000-year-old smelting workshop in Georgia shows how Bronze Age metallurgists mastered iron-rich fluxes—laying the cognitive groundwork…
Sep 29
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Anthropology & Primatology
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14:38
Nets in Clay: How Jomon Pottery Preserved Japan’s Oldest Fishing Technology
A six-millennia-old window onto the lives of coastal foragers
Sep 27
4
18:26
When Two Worlds Met on the Steppe
New genomic evidence reveals how Bronze Age herders coexisted—and then vanished—in Mongolia’s Orkhon Valley
Sep 26
5
15:34
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