Middle Stone Age populations repeatedly occupied West African coast
Excavations at Tiémassas, Senegal, indicate roughly 40,000 years of behavioral continuity, in contrast to other African regions over this period.
The microbiome of Da Vinci’s drawings
The microbial composition of art pieces can reveal interesting facts about their past and the journey they made.
Geoscientists discover Ancestral Puebloans survived from ice melt in New Mexico lava tubes
A lava tube in the El Malpais National Monument yields centuries-old insights of survival in the face of harsh climate change.
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.
