» Butchery clues reveal Neanderthals may have had “family recipes”
» Scholars just solved a 130-year literary mystery—and it all hinged on one word
» Princeton study maps 200,000 years of Human–Neanderthal interbreeding
» Inside the Maya king’s tomb that rewrites Mesoamerican history
» The first pandemic? Scientists find 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric DNA
» North america’s oldest pterosaur unearthed in Arizona’s Triassic time capsule
» Buried for 23,000 years: These footprints are rewriting American history
» These 545-million-year-old fossil trails just rewrote the story of evolution
» This team tried to cross 140 miles of treacherous ocean like stone-age humans—and it worked
» Farming without famine: Ancient Andean innovation rewrites agricultural origins
» Mammals didn't walk upright until late—here's what fossils reveal
» No kings buried here: DNA unravels the myth of incestuous elites in ancient Ireland
» Monster salamander with powerful jaws unearthed in Tennessee fossil find
» The 10,000-mile march through fire that made dinosaurs possible
» What a dinosaur ate 100 million years ago—Preserved in a fossilized time capsule
» 2,000 miles through rivers and ice: Mapping neanderthals’ hidden superhighways across eurasia
» New evidence reveals advanced maritime technology in the philippines 35,000 years ago
» Drone tech uncovers 1,000-year-old native american farms in michigan
» 3,500-year-old graves reveal secrets that rewrite bronze age history
» Researchers recreate ancient Egyptian blues
» Long shot science leads to revised age for land-animal ancestor
» Leprosy existed in America long before arrival of Europeans
» Anthropologists spotlight human toll of glacier loss
» Rock record illuminates oxygen history
» Dinosaurs could hold key to cancer discoveries
» Does planting trees really help cool the planet?
» New method provides the key to accessing proteins in ancient human remains
» A sweeping study of 7,000 years of monuments in South Arabia
» Bed bugs are most likely the first human pest, new research shows
» New velvet worm species a first for the arid Karoo
» Chemists recreate how RNA might have reproduced for first time
» Oldest whale bone tools discovered
» A root development gene that's older than root development
» Earliest use of psychoactive and medicinal plant 'harmal' identified in Iron Age Arabia
» Different phases of evolution during ice age
» Ancient DNA used to map evolution of fever-causing bacteria
» Scientists have figured out how extinct giant ground sloths got so big and where it all went wrong
» Tapping into the world's largest gold reserves
» 'Selfish' genes called introners proven to be a major source of genetic complexity
» Toothache from eating something cold? Blame these ancient fish
» 'Sharkitecture:' A nanoscale look inside a blacktip shark's skeleton
» Research team traces evolutionary history of bacterial circadian clock on ancient Earth
» Ancient ocean sediments link changes in currents to cooling of Northern Hemisphere 3.6 million years ago
» Very different mammals follow the same rules of behavior
» Asians made humanity's longest prehistoric migration and shaped the genetic landscape in the Americas
» Scientists use fossils to assess the health of Florida's largest remaining seagrass bed: Surprisingly, it's doing well!
» Dexterity and climbing ability: how ancient human relatives used their hands
» Fossil tracks show reptiles appeared on Earth up to 40 million years earlier
» Europe's forest plants thrive best in light-rich, semi-open woodlands -- kept open by large herbivores
» Australia's oldest prehistoric tree frog hops 22 million years back in time
» UV light and CT scans helped scientists unlock hidden details in a beautifully-preserved fossil Archaeopteryx
» From prehistoric resident to runaway pet: First tegu fossil found in the U.S.
» Vast Aztec trade networks behind ancient obsidian artifacts
» First fossil evidence of endangered tropical tree discovered
» Researchers map 7,000-year-old genetic mutation that protects against HIV
» New ancient fish species earliest known salmon ancestor
» Comb jellies reveal ancient origins of animal genome regulation
» T. rex's direct ancestor crossed from Asia to North America
» Slickrock: Geologists explore why Utah's Wasatch Fault is vulnerable to earthquakes
» Ancient Andes society used hallucinogens to strengthen social order

» Energy expenditure and obesity across the economic spectrum
» The evolution of male–female dominance relations in primate societies
» Onset of extensive human fire use 50,000 y ago
» The earliest domestic pigs in Neolithic China were closely managed
» A norm about harvest division is maintained by a desire to follow tradition, not by social policing
» Early evidence for pig domestication (8,000 cal. BP) in the Lower Yangtze, South China
» Psychoactive plants and secret rituals in ancient Peru
» Correction for Izdebski et al., Unbalanced social–ecological acceleration led to state formation failure in early medieval Poland
» A universally applicable definition for domestication
» Iñupiat marine mammal science a long time coming
» Reevaluating the relationship between female sociality and infant survival in wild baboons
» Group traits moderate the relationship between individual social traits and fitness in gorillas
» Compositional analysis of obsidian artifacts from the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, capital of the Mexica (Aztec) Empire
» Diversity statistics of onomastic data reveal social patterns in Hebrew Kingdoms of the Iron Age
» Correction for Ahituv et al., Starch-rich plant foods 780,000 y ago: Evidence from Acheulian percussive stone tools
» Pre-Hispanic ritual use of psychoactive plants at Chavín de Huántar, Peru
» Unbalanced social–ecological acceleration led to state formation failure in early medieval Poland
» Kuznets’ tides: An archaeological perspective on the long-term dynamics of sustainable development
» Economic inequality is fueled by population scale, land-limited production, and settlement hierarchies across the archaeological record
» Changes in agglomeration and productivity are poor predictors of inequality across the archaeological record