Ice Age Hunters in the Americas
New sites and finds are emerging that may radically change what scientists know about the timing of the peopling of the Americas.
Newly discovered fossil shows small-scale evolutionary changes in an extinct human species
Fossil cranium suggests environmental conditions drove rapid changes.
Population dynamics and the rise of empires in Inner Asia
Genome-wide analysis spanning 6,000 years in the eastern Eurasian Steppe gives insights to the formation of Mongolia's empires.
Many early big-game hunters of the americas were female, researchers suggest
Challenges age-old 'man-the-hunter' hypothesis.
Recent archaeological finds shed more light on fate of America’s historic “lost colony”
Multiple archaeological sites have revealed new clues to where the first British colonists went after abandoning their main settlement on Roanoke Island, North Carolina.
Bison engravings in Spanish caves reveal a common art culture across ancient Europe
Study finds ancient Gravettian art culture much more widespread than thought.
Texas A&M expert: New clues revealed about Clovis people
A study by professor Michael Waters shows that tools made by some of North America's earliest inhabitants were made only during a 300-year period.
Ancient Maya built sophisticated water filters
Maya imported zeolite and quartz to filter drinking water.
Environmental changes impacted human evolution in East Africa, suggest scientists
A drill core provides evidence of a fluctuating environment that paralleled a transitional period in human evolution in the Olorgesailie Basin, Kenya.
When good governments go bad
History shows that societies collapse when leaders undermine social contracts.
6,500-year-old copper workshop uncovered in the Negev Desert’s Beer Sheva
Tel Aviv University and Israel Antiquities Authority believe copper-producing technology was closely guarded secret.
