Grand Canyon: 12,000 years of human history in the Colorado cliffs
Recent research pushes back human occupation of the Grand Canyon to more than 12,000 years, from Clovis hunters to Ancestral Puebloan village builders, to the Havas…
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From 3 million years ago to the dawn of our era: archaeological discoveries, palaeogenetics, cave art and the great transformations of human societies.
Recent research pushes back human occupation of the Grand Canyon to more than 12,000 years, from Clovis hunters to Ancestral Puebloan village builders, to the Havas…
Read →At Heliopolis, the spiritual heart of ancient Egypt now engulfed by Cairo, Egyptian archaeologists have discovered the relief-decorated tomb of Panehsy, a high offi…
Read →In the Nile Delta, the Tell Kom Aziza site has yielded an exceptionally well-preserved Greco-Roman cemetery, with mummies adorned with painted portraits that fuse Egyptian and Hellenistic traditions.
A giant skull from China, a mandible from the Tibetan plateau, and a novel epigenetic method: how scientists reconstructed the face of our Denisovan cousins, long reduced to a handful of bone fragments.
How Homo erectus's mastery of fire created selection pressure on human skin, favoring reduced body hair, eccrine sweat glands, and melanin pigmentation as UV protection.
Bird bones bearing cut marks and heat traces reveal that Neanderthals hunted and cooked birds using elaborate Mousterian techniques -- and may have accorded them symbolic value beyond mere nutrition.
Read →336 m underground, two rings of 400 broken stalagmites, 2.2 tonnes, reveal unsuspected Neanderthal social organiza…
Read →A 2026 study in <em>Science Advances</em> demonstrates that quartz microliths from Umhlatuzana (KwaZulu-Natal) con…
Read →Discovered by chance in Bulgaria in 1972, the Varna chalcolithic necropolis has yielded more than 3,000 gold artif…
Read →At Cueva de los Aviones in Spain, pierced, ochre-dyed shells show Neanderthals mastered symbolic adornment, 20,000 to 40,000 years before comparable evidence for Homo sapiens.
A 2023 study published in <em>Scientific Reports</em> reveals that hominins at Bilzingsleben (Germany) systematically hunted the Eurasian beaver: 94 individuals identified, predominantly young adults targeted for their fur and meat.
A study published in <em>Nature Ecology & Evolution</em> in 2022 reveals that hominins were cooking carp on the banks of the Jordan River in Israel 780,000 years ago, pushing back the earliest known fish-cooking episode by 530,000 years.
At Milovice IV, 29 flint blades gathered in a vanished pouch form the personal kit of a Gravettian hunter. Their stones, from 130 km away, reveal the vast networks of glacial Europe.
Read →Nearly 4,000 years ago, princesses of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom were interred with bows, arrows and daggers. Lon…
Read →On the shores of Lake Turkana, 1.5-million-year-old footprints prove that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei fre…
Read →At Boomplaas Cave, an antelope molar yielded the oldest DNA ever recovered in sub-Saharan Africa. Heat does not ne…
Read →Born in Kenya 1.76 million years ago, the Acheulean culture produced identical bifaces across three continents with no apparent contact between populations. Why so much craft invested in tools so often never used?
Read →A study published in Science reveals that Near Oceanian inhabitants carry 2.5 times more archaic DNA than European…
Read →At Tam Pà Ling in Laos, Homo sapiens remains dated to 86,000-68,000 years push our species' presence in Southeast …
Read →Deep in Casablanca, the Hominid Cave of Thomas Quarry I has yielded skull fragments dated to 773,000 years ago, fi…
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