Ancient indigenous New Mexican community knew how to sustainably coexist with wildfire
Native people lived in flammable landscapes of the American West for millenia.
Chimpanzee friends fight together to battle rivals
Strong social bonds increase the willingness to join others in battle.
Early humans used chopping tools to break animal bones and consume the bone marrow
The toolkit of prehistoric humans.
On the origins of money: Ancient European hoards full of standardized bronze objects
Early Bronze Age cultures traded in bronze objects of standardized weight.
Resurrecting the Wisdom of the Past
How archaeological research today helps humanity engineer a better future.
First modern human stone tool culture lasted 20,000 years longer than thought
Some 11 thousand years ago, Africa's furthest west harbored the last populations to preserve tool-making traditions first established by the earliest members of our species.
Oldest hominins of Olduvai Gorge persisted across changing environments
~2.0 to 1.8 million year-old archaeological site demonstrates that early humans had the skills and tools to cope with ecological change.
Evidence for a massive paleo-tsunami at ancient Tel Dor, Israel
Paleo-tsunami may be the reason previous archaeological surveys found no evidence for low-lying coastal villages in the area over a 4000 year period.
Ancient DNA sheds light on the peopling of the Mariana Islands
Researchers find that present-day Mariana Islanders' ancestry is linked to the Philippines.
