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Illustration of female hunter depicting hunters who may have appeared in the Andes 9,000 years ago. Credit: Matthew Verdolivo, UC Davis IET Academic Technology Services…
Artist’s reconstruction of a savannah in Middle Pleistocene Southeast Asia. In the foreground Homo erectus, stegodon, hyenas, and Asian rhinos are depicted. Water buffalo can…
Aerial view showing the Southern Storage Complex (SSC), the Northern Storage Complex (NSC; blue dashed box) and the trench (red dashed lines). Credit: Eric Cline/GW…
Map shows the Levant region (shaded in orange), which is the western part of the overall Fertile Crescent region (shaded in yellow); the study areas…
The proximity of hot springs to early settlements have led researchers to wonder if early humans used hot springs as a cooking resource long before…
Seven La Chamba unglazed ceramic pots used in a yearlong cooking experiment that analyzed the chemical residues of meals prepared. Credit: Melanie Miller Archaeologists find…
Casts of two key specimens: Paranthropus aethiopicus (left) and P. boisei (right). Credit: Zeresenay Alemseged A new study published this week in the journal Proceedings…
New archaeological research in Saudi Arabia documents hundreds of stone structures interpreted as monumental sites where early pastoralists carried out rituals. Image shows character of…
This photograph from 1975 depicts the left hand of a plague victim, which displayed areas of gangrene, especially in the distal fingertips and thumb, which…
Familiar rituals are important tools for reducing stress, according to new research by UConn’s Dimitris Xygalatas. Credit: Dimitris Xygalatas With graduation ceremonies, weddings, funeral, annual…
The man in grave 54 from the Ajvide Pitted Ware burial ground on Gotland is buried flat on his back, which is typical of Pitted…
People are more generous than not and try to do right by each other, no matter the motivation. People want to help each other, even…
Antelope in South Africa. Pinnacle Point, a series of archaeological sites that overlook a now submerged section of South Africa’s coastline and one of the…
Western cavity adjacent to Pudjinuk Rockshelter No. 1 facing west (note that the entrance to the rockshelter is partially concealed from this vantage point). Photo…
Looking out at the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain from the cave entrance at the Pinnacle Point, South Africa, research site–left, 200,000 years ago during glacial phases and…
Stone artifacts from the Initial Upper Paleolithic at Bacho Kiro Cave: 1-3, 5-7 Pointed blades and fragments from Layer I; 4 Sandstone bead with morphology…
Upper part of the body of grave 43 during excavation. The girl had an artificially deformed skull, was place in a grave with a side…
Dads emerged to reap the benefits of partnerships with females and other males, team of anthropologists and economists argue. Humans differ from other primates in…
Brain imprints in fossil skulls of the species Australopithecus afarensis (famous for “Lucy”, and the “Dikika child” from Ethiopia pictured here in frontal and lateral…