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.
Beyond Monuments: Ancient Maya Landscapes Revealed Through Technology
Scientists are now seeing, more than ever, what the ancient Maya created beyond the more visible monumental structures everyone sees today.
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.
The aroma of distant worlds
Researchers report evidence of exotic foods in the Near East of the 2nd millennium BCE, suggesting trade networks with South Asia.
Researchers deconstruct ancient Jewish parchment using multiple imaging techniques
Analyses of the materials in the scrolls helps put the object into an historical context and guides conservators in future restoration efforts.
