Bronze Age Mystery Surprise: Milk Enabled Massive Steppe Migration
From the Xiongnu to the Mongols, the pastoralist populations of the Eurasian steppe have long been a source of fascination. Amongst the earliest herding groups…
From the Xiongnu to the Mongols, the pastoralist populations of the Eurasian steppe have long been a source of fascination. Amongst the earliest herding groups…
Newly discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed show that humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), occupying the region…
As early as 18,000 years ago, humans in New Guinea may have collected cassowary eggs near maturity and then raised the birds to adulthood, according…
Fossilized footprints, and more rarely, handprints, can be found around the world left as people went about their daily business, preserved by freak acts of…
Maya rulers transformed cities, forging new memories of the landscape. Early Maya cities featured monumental complexes, which centered on a shared form of religion but…
Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico provide the earliest unequivocal evidence of human activity in the Americas and offer insight into…
New insights into the climatic backdrop for an early wave of dispersal of our species into Europe during the last glacial period. The process of…
Lidar mapping study reveals vast landscape modifications that still influence construction and farming. A lidar mapping study using a cutting-edge aerial mapping technology shows ancient…
Ancient DNA extracted from human bones has rewritten early Japanese history by underlining that modern day populations in Japan have a tripartite genetic origin –…
Ancient humans could do some impressive things with elephant bones. In a new study, University of Colorado Boulder archaeologist Paola Villa and her colleagues surveyed…
A new study led by Arizona State University paleoanthropologist Curtis Marean and ASU doctoral graduate Emily Hallett details more than 60 tools made of bone…
A new study suggests that generation intervals have fluctuated during the past 40,000 years of human evolution in contrast to what has been commonly assumed….
A new investigation of stone tools buried in graves provides evidence supporting the existence of a division of different types of labor between people of…
Pottery vessels which had contained beer, found with human remains in platform mound. Alcoholic beverages have long been known to serve an important socio-cultural function…
International research team isolates DNA from modern human buried 7,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The international study was accomplished through close…
Research team reconstructs genetic histories and social organization in Neolithic and Bronze Age Croatia. Present-day Croatia was an important crossroads for migrating peoples along the…
Researchers have known from several lines of evidence that the ancient hominins known as the Denisovans interbred with modern humans in the distant past. Now…
Middle Pleistocene fire use: The first signal of widespread cultural diffusion in human evolution. Researchers from the University of Leiden and Eindhoven University of Technology…