Category: Arch/ Anthro

Starting around 4,000 years ago, an elaborate fish-trapping system nourished expanding human populations in lowland Central America, a new study finds. The discovery of this massive construction project indicates that aquatic foods at…

An extended childhood, a hallmark of human development, may have gotten off to an ancient and unusual start.

One of the earliest known members of the Homo genus experienced delayed, humanlike tooth development during childhood before…

Inside a specially constructed safe at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa sit the fragile remains of the world’s most celebrated human ancestor. She was once a hardy survivor in an unforgiving environment, but now her…

Archaeologists have discovered links between cylinder seal symbols (4400-3400 BC) and early proto-cuneiform symbols (3350-3000 BC) from Uruk in southern Iraq.

Uruk, one of the earliest cities played a leading role in the urbanisation of Sumer from…

Rare depictions of Stone Age net fishing have surfaced on engraved stones thanks to an imaging technique that gives magnification a digital boost.

Previously unnoticed lines etched into eight stones found at Gönnersdorf, a roughly…

A massive Maya landscape has been hiding under a forested area of southern Mexico.

The newfound city, dubbed Valeriana, spans an area roughly the size of Beijing and has “all the hallmarks of a Classic Maya political capital,”…

The notion of a midlife crisis is dead. Or maybe it was always bunk. Now some scientists want a postmortem for the theory.

The idea that happiness in the Western world plummets around midlife before rebounding has been around since…

A recent study of skeletal remains found on the Mary Rose suggests that a person’s dominant hand may affect how the chemistry of their clavicle bone changes with age.

The Mary Rose was a carrack warship in the English Tudor navy and served as…