Credit: University of Texas at Arlington Underwater archaeology team finds ancient obsidian flakes 2,000 miles from quarry. An underwater archaeologist from The University of Texas…
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Set of photographs of stone lamp experiment. Credit: Medina-Alcaide et al, 2021, PLOS ONE A recreation of three common types of Paleolithic lighting systems (torches,…
New study and a review of decades of data pushes the memory clock back over a year, but the study confirms everyone is different. On…
Research from the University of Kent’s School of Anthropology and Conservation has discovered that one of the earliest stone tool cultures, known as the Acheulean,…
Indentation of several goat hooves in a brick from the archaeological site of Ganj Dareh. Credit: The ‘Tracking Cultural and Environmental Change project’ New research…
The study involved 375 budding service dogs from the Canine Companions service dog organization. Credit: Courtesy of Emily Bray/University of Arizona Dogs may have earned…
Andrew Somerville made an unexpected discovery while studying the origins of agriculture. Credit: Christopher Gannon, Iowa State University An unexpected discovery by an Iowa State…
While it is widely accepted that climate change drove the evolution of our species in Africa, the exact character of that climate change and its…
A Tsimane child in a canoe. Credit: Chapman University Tsimane people are unique for their healthy brains that age more slowly. A team of international…
Ancient Judeans commonly ate non-kosher fish surrounding the time that such food was prohibited in the Bible, suggests a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Tel…
An artist’s rendering of a Neolithic pastoralist at Obishir rockshelter. Credit: Ettore Mazza Early Dispersal of Neolithic Domesticated Sheep Into the Heart of Central Asia…
When it comes to sexual attraction, women rate age, education, intelligence, income, trust, and emotion connection higher than men who put a greater priority on…
Study of medical studies reveals ancient aboriginal memory technique superior. Australian scientists have compared an ancient Greek technique of memorizing data to an even older…
General view of the cave site of Panga ya Saidi. Note trench excavation where burial was unearthed. Credit: Mohammad Javad Shoaee The discovery of the…
The last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans represents the starting point of human and chimpanzee evolution. Fossil apes play an essential role when it…
General view of the cave site of Panga ya Saidi. Note trench excavation where burial was unearthed. Credit: Mohammad Javad Shoaee Dating to 78,000 years…
An individual human can maintain stable social relationships with about 150 people. This is the proposition known as ‘Dunbar’s number’ – that the architecture of…
Galería de las Estatuas cave site in northern Spain. Credit: Javier Trueba – Madrid Scientific Films For the first time, scientists have succeeded in extracting…
Santo Antao (Cabo Verde). Credit: Sandra Nogue Research has shed new light on the impact of humans on Earth’s biodiversity. The findings suggest that the…
Skulls of early Homo from Georgia with an ape-like brain (left) and from Indonesia with a human-like brain (right). Credit: M. Ponce de León and…