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.
Prehistoric food globalization spanned three millennia
Peasant farmers began transforming diets across the Old World 7,000 years ago, study finds.
Study shows that Vikings enjoyed a warmer Greenland
Chemistry of bugs trapped in ancient lake sediment shows a warm climate at a key time in Greenland's history.
The Caucasus: Complex interplay of genes and cultures
Genetic studies of ancient populations in the Caucasus region testify to the complex interaction of populations from the Eurasian steppe and the Caucasus Mountains in the Bronze Age.
Sexing ancient cremated human remains is possible through skeletal measurements
Anatomical variation in cremated bones correlates strongly with sex indicated by gendered grave goods.
Humans colonized diverse environments in Southeast Asia and Oceania during the Pleistocene
New review compares the regional adaptations of humans and those of other hominin species to add support to the argument that our species is ecologically unique.
