Resilience, Not Collapse: What the Easter Island Myth Gets Totally Wrong
New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York suggests that the demographic collapse at the core of the Easter Island myth didn’t really…
New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York suggests that the demographic collapse at the core of the Easter Island myth didn’t really…
Statistical methods designed for cosmology reveal tomb distribution in Sudan over millennia governed by environmental and social factors. Sudanese Islamic burial sites are distributed according…
Scientists have discovered an unexplained cache of fossilized shark teeth in an area where there should be none — in a 2,900-year-old site in the…
Holding onto everyday items as keepsakes when a loved one dies was as commonplace in prehistory as it is today, a new study suggests. The…
Analysis of recently discovered fossils found in Israel suggests that interactions between different human species were more complex than previously believed, according to a team…
A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University. The largest of known Homo skulls, scientists…
Newspapers regularly carry stories of terrifying shark attacks, but in a paper published today, Oxford-led researchers reveal their discovery of a 3,000-year-old victim — attacked…
Dramatic Discovery in Israeli Excavation The discovery of a new Homo group in this region, which resembles Pre-Neanderthal populations in Europe, challenges the prevailing hypothesis…
Underwater archaeology team finds ancient obsidian flakes 2,000 miles from quarry. Scientists are studying 9,000-year-old stone tool artifacts discovered in Lake Huron that originated from…
A recreation of three common types of Paleolithic lighting systems (torches, grease lamps, and fireplaces) illuminates how Paleolithic cave dwellers might have traveled, lived, and…
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,…
The world is filled with myriad sounds that can overwhelm a person with relentless acoustics. Noise is so prevalent in everyday life that the concept…
New research has revealed the genetic makeup of the earliest goat herds. The findings, assimilated from DNA taken from the remains of 32 goats that…
Accurate soft tissue measurements are critical when making reconstructions of human ancestors, a new study from the University of Adelaide and Arizona State University has…
Dogs may have earned the title “man’s best friend” because of how good they are at interacting with people. Those social skills may be present…
An unexpected discovery by an Iowa State University researcher suggests that the first humans may have arrived in North America more than 30,000 years ago…
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…