Category: Arch/ Anthro

A 4,000-year-old murder mystery began with a massacre in what’s now southwestern England. Then came dismemberment, possibly accompanied by cannibalism.

At least 37 men, women and children suffered this violent fate, ending up…

In 2024, researchers turned up possible evidence of ancient life on Mars, hints that Alzheimer’s disease can spread from person-to-person and a slew of other scientific findings that could be a big deal — if they’re the real…

Have you ever felt like there was a pit in your stomach? What about a flutter in your heart?

It turns out that the anatomical connections we make with certain emotions and feelings — what researchers call embodied emotions — may…

In a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE, archaeologists examined the exceptional human remains from the Middle Trypillia site of Kosenivka (ca. 3700-3600 BCE) in Ukraine.

The Shangshan culture in ancient China’s Lower Yangzi region is central to understanding the origins of rice domestication and early alcohol fermentation. To address these issues, researchers examined artifacts from the early phase of the…

An ancient ritual compound has come to light in the deepest, darkest part of a cave located in what’s now northern Israel.

Homo sapiens groups assembled at the cave to hold torchlit ceremonies, probably inspired by mythological or…

Homo juluensis — a newly-erected human species that includes enigmatic Denisovans and several hominin fossils from Tibet, Taiwan and Laos — lived in eastern Asia from around 300,000 years ago to 50,000 years ago.

Ancient North Americans are looking more and more like experienced mammoth killers.

Archaeologists have long debated whether the Clovis people, who lived around 13,000 years ago, had the know-how and technology to regularly hunt the…

Neandertals really knew their way around a fire. In a sea cave sheltered from the blustery winds of Gibraltar, our ancient cousins created a hearth capable of making tar from nearby plants, a new study suggests.

Previous research has…

Two ancient hominid species with slightly different gaits crossed paths in East Africa.

Footprints preserved on what was once a muddy lakeshore indicate that the two species, each built to walk in its own way, hung out there around…