The 550 Year Old Chimú Site in Las Llamas, Peru Is World’s Largest Child Sacrifice Site
The pre-Columbian burial site of the Chimú civilization known as Las Llamas, in northern Peru contains the skeletons of 140 …
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Qesem Cave’s 400,000 Year Old Stone Tool Making Classroom
Israel’s Qesem cave is approx. 12 km east of Tel Aviv. At 420,000 to 220,000 years old, it is a …
Intersection Of Ecology & Hunter-Gatherer Abundance
What happens when you get a archaeologist, an ecologist, and a paleontologist to in the same room to look at …
Levallois Stone Tools In India 385,000 Years Ago
A study published today in the journal Nature analyzed more than 7,200 stone tools from middle Paleolithic Attirampakkam creekside site …
Göbekli Tepe Skull Cult
The internet has been buzzing about a potential 11,500-12,000 year old skull cult from Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. Göbekli Tepe …
Interpreting Paleolithic Funerary Rites from Broken Ochred Pebbles
Claudine Gravel-Miguel, archaeology doctoral student at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, research has taken …
The Cardiac Health of the Tsimane
A lot of discussion is constantly had about what is the healthiest diet; low fat or low carb. An interesting …
A Nose In The Air: The Influence of Climate & Nose Morphology
British anthropologist Arthur Thomson, in the late 1800’s published his observations on nose size and shape. He noted that humans from …
The Resilience of The Awá Against Modernity
Over at the Washington Post, there’s an interesting article documenting how two Amazonian Awá tribeswomen have escaped the modern life …
Ritual Human Sacrifice Paved Way For Complex Societies
Anthropologists from New Zealand have collected evidence that suggests that ritualized human sacrifice was a formative rite that paved way …
