Researchers find a piece of Palaeolithic art featuring birds and humans
An exceptional milestone in European Palaeolithic rock art.
Chimpanzees lose their behavioral and cultural diversity
Human impact reduces the behavioral repertoire of chimpanzees.
Evidence for human involvement in extinction of megafauna in the late Pleistocene
Campo Laborde: A Late Pleistocene giant ground sloth kill and butchering site in the Pampas.
Hundreds of children and llamas sacrificed in a ritual event in 15th century Peru
The largest sacrifice of its kind known from the Americas was associated with heavy rainfall and flooding.
New findings shed light on origin of upright walking in human ancestors
4.5 million-year old fossil shows evidence of greater reliance on bipedalism than previously suggested.
Neanderthals walked upright just like the humans of today
No "primitive" gate as popularly depicted in the past.
Archaeological report on findings from Roman fort at Hadrian’s Wall
Archaeological report spanning 28 years published on findings from the Roman fort at the eastern end of Hadrian’s Wall, Wallsend in North Tyneside.
Pottery reveals America’s first social media networks
Ancient Indigenous societies, including Mississippian Mound cultures, were built through social networks, PNAS study suggests.
Neanderthals’ main food source was definitely meat
Isotope analyses performed on single amino acids in Neanderthals' collagen samples shed new light on their debated diet.
The monkey hunters: Humans colonize South Asian rainforest by hunting primates
New study provides direct evidence for the hunting of tree-dwelling monkeys and other small mammals by Homo sapiens 45,000 years ago in the rainforest of Sri Lanka.
