In 2022 we detailed the discovery of 1,500 stone points in France’s Madrin cave. Experiments now show that they could were used as arrowheads, pushing back evidence of archery in Eurasia by 40,000 years.
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It’s been 200 years since the discovery of one of the oldest human burial sites in western Europe on the Gower peninsula in south Wales.
New study shows Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had a taste for sharp and bitter food.
When, how, where and why did complex hierarchical societies evolve? Understanding how we got to this point in time may help us address global challenges, like climate change.
Stone artifacts and a fossil tooth point to Homo sapiens living at Grotte Mandrin 54,000 years ago, at a time when Neanderthals were still living in Europe.
Teens across millennia have yearned to explore, try new things and participate in risky behaviours. The key difference, however, seems to be the experience of a rebellion or restlessness.
For thousands of years, Native Americans left their artistic mark deep within caves in the American Southeast. It wasn’t until 1980 that these ancient visual expressions were known to archaeologists.
De nouvelles preuves confirment que des différences culturelles intergroupes, notables et anciennes, ont façonné les dernières étapes de l'évolution humaine en Afrique.
A reconstruction of a dinosaur’s back passage reveals it may have been used for visual communication.
Before 200,000 years ago, close to the origin of our species, people preferred the use of broad-leaved grasses to build their beds and resting areas using ash layers underneath.
This newly discovered species is the oldest one known to resemble today’s penguins in both size and leg proportions, unlike its giant co-habitants at the time.
Armed conflict in Syria has been a disaster for the area’s cultural heritage. A displaced archaeologist describes what’s being lost.
Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for about 180 million years. But around 66 million years ago, a huge rock from outer space (called an asteroid) smashed into the Earth. Then things got worse for dinosaurs.
A fresh look at museum artifacts fills in a gap in the Asian archaeological record and refutes the idea that an advanced technique was imported from the West by early modern humans.
Figurative art may derive from Neanderthal hand prints and the hunter’s keen eye for perceiving animals.
New discoveries are changing archaeologists’ ideas about the origins of our own species and our migration out of Africa. This fossil pushes Homo sapiens’ African exodus date back by 50,000 years.
From the tropics of Borneo, Darren Curnoe posted a daily diary sharing his team’s dig to explore ancient cemeteries. Through two metres of clay, human bones and tools were discovered.
The early human ‘Cockney pearly kings and queens’.
The San are caught between a rock and an art place. While they face an uncertain future, myths and meaning come under the spotlight in a new book.
Reconstructions of human evolution are prone to simple, overly-tidy scenarios. Our ancestors, for example, stood on two legs to look over tall grass, or began to speak because, well, they finally had something…
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Lecturer of Anthropology and Assistant Director of the Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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CNRS Permanent Member, Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès
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Archéologue et chercheuse en anthropologie, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Earth and paleo-climate scientist, Australian National University
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Primate and Human Evolution, Georgia State University
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Project Officer – Office of the Queensland Chief Scientist
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Professor in Bioarchaeology, Head of Archaeology and Conservation, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Lecturer in Macroevolution, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Washington
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Independent Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
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Professor of Cultural Palaeoecology, Liverpool John Moores University
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Research Associate, University of York
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Professor in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University
