Water and gruel – not bread: Discovering the diet of early Neolithic farmers in Scandinavia
At a 5,500-year-old Neolithic Danish settlement, archaeologists found grinding stones and early cereal grains. However, the stones weren't used to grind the grains for bread. Instead, the inhabitants likely...
Oldest modern human genomes sequenced
Genomes of seven early Europeans show they belonged to a small, isolated group that had recently mixed with Neandertals but left no present-day descendants.
A new timeline for Neanderthal interbreeding with modern humans
Surviving Neanderthal genes in modern genome tell a story of thousands of years of interactions.
Early collective ritual practices in the Levant
A 36,000-year-old Paleolithic ritual chamber discovered.
We might feel love in our fingertips –– but did the Ancient Mesopotamians?
Researchers studied ancient texts to see whether humans experience emotions in their bodies in a similar manner, regardless of time, language and culture.
Digging Up the Roots of Human Culture
What led humans on the unique path of cultural development? And can we do anything useful with newly reconstructed histories of this process?
Findings shed new light on the evolution of the human brain
Research uncovers major trends in the evolution of hominin brain size over a period of about million years.
