Advanced radiocarbon dating pins down the chronology of the Lapedo Child
Part modern human, part Neanderthal, this child is now dated to about 28,000 years ago.
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Cover Stories
How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know It Today
Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life.
The standardized production of bone tools by our ancestors pushed back one million years
The first Bronze Age settlement in the Maghreb
UB researcher leads discovery of great significance for the history of Africa and the Mediterranean.
Vesuvian ash cloud turned brain to glass
A super-heated ash cloud from Vesuvius turned a Roman citizen's brain to glass in Herculaneum in 79 AD.
Earliest evidence for humans in rainforests
Exploring Ancient Understandings of Meteorites in Archaic Societies
Ancient genomes illuminate Huns’ origin
Viking skulls reveal severe morbidity
Clues of advanced ancient technology found in the Philippines and Island Southeast Asia
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Other Stories
Research reveals ancient Maya lessons on surviving drought
Huge variety of plant foods made their starvation unlikely.
Nits on ancient mummies shed light on South American ancestry
New technique means head lice can provide clues about ancient people and migration.
Scientists digitally ‘unwrap’ mummy of pharaoh Amenhotep I for the first time in 3,000 years
Study shows that 21st dynasty restorers ‘lovingly restored’ mummy, dispelling theory that they were bent on reusing old royal burial equipment.
New dates for Viking trade
Solar flare throws light on ancient trade between the Islamic Middle East and the Viking Age.
Humans Reached Remote North Atlantic Islands Centuries Earlier Than Thought
Faroes Settled Well Before Vikings Arrived, Lake Sediments Show.
Mystery solved: Footprints from site A at Laetoli, Tanzania, are from early humans, not bears
Findings provide conclusive evidence that multiple species of hominins co-existed on the landscape.
Volcanic eruptions contributed to collapse of China dynasties
Eruptions create sulfuric acid clouds in the upper atmosphere and can cool the climate.
A Child of darkness
The first partial skull of a child of Homo naledi begins to give us insight into all stages of life of this remarkable species.
More than ceremonial, ancient Chaco Canyon was home, new study says
Early puebloans impacted the ecosystem around Chaco Canyon earlier than previously believed.
