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Why Do We Have Eyebrows? Finally We Have an Evolutionary Explanation
Why expressive brows might have mattered in human evolution (read more)
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Bubble, bubble, plop! Your Dad Didn’t Invent Homebrew Wine
Archaeologists find earliest evidence of winemaking (read more)
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Stone Age Swipe Right: The Truth About Prehistoric Dating
Prehistoric humans are likely to have formed mating networks to avoid inbreeding (read more)
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In the Hands of Cod – How Fish Unified Europe Before Brussels
DNA from Viking cod bones suggests 1,000-year history of European fish trade (read more)
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Don’t Fear the Reaper: Domestication of Seeds was Earlier than We Thought
Synchrotron light used to show human domestication of seeds from 2000 BC (read more)
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By the Breath of Horus! Genome Data from Egyptian Mummies
Study finds that ancient Egyptians were most closely related to ancient populations from the Near East (read more)
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Guess Which Parts of the Brain Were Used for Stone Age Tech
Changes in Early Stone Age tool production have ‘musical’ ties (read more)
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But it’s How *I* See It! Pointillism from 38,000 Years Ago
38,000-year-old engravings confirm ancient origins of technique used by Seurat, Van Gogh (read more)
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Bite Me, Reptiles! Mammals Had Venom First
A kiss of death — mammals were the first animals to produce venom (read more)
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Seven years in Tibet? Try 13,000
Research sheds new light on high-altitude settlement in Tibet (read more)
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Nothing New Under the Sun – How Prehistory Tackled Global Warming
Computer models find ancient solutions to modern problems (read more)
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Tastes Like Cabbage: The Deep Origins of Cooked Veggies
Earliest evidence discovered of plants cooked in ancient pottery (read more)
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Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff: Exposing Ancient Cereal Cultivation
Prehistoric plant remains highlight diverse origins of cereal domestication (read more)
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Black is the New Pink. Black Pigs, Better Bacon
New mutation found that suggests humans across the world have selected and bred black pigs (read more)
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Slim Shadysaurus: What We’ve Learned From the Patterns on a Psittacosaurus
What dinosaurs’ color patterns say about their lives (read more)
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Then Wash Your Hands: The Pathogens of Prehistoric Poo
Ancient feces provides earliest evidence of infectious disease being carried on Silk Road (read more)
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Alaska and Asia: The Trans-Pacific Trading Partnership that Pre-dates Columbus
Old World metals traded on Alaska coast hundreds of years before contact with Europeans (read more)
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Is it Done Yet? Archaeologists Find 5000 Year-Old Recipe for Beer
Revealing a 5000-year-old beer recipe in China (read more)
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Don’t Eat the Meatballs? The Real Message of Sweden’s Rök Runestone
New interpretation of the Rök runestone inscription changes view of Viking Age (read more)
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Do You Have a Postcode for that, Sir? Archaeologists Discover Outer Reaches of the Silk Road
Nepali textile find suggests Silk Road extended further south than previously thought (read more)
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Scuttled, Sunk and, er, Mislaid. The Wreck of the 1-400 Mega-Submarine
Bronze bell recovered from World War II aircraft-carrying submarine off Oahu coast (read more)
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No Mod Cons, But a Spectacular View. Where our Human Ancestors Lived
Scientists piece together an early human habitat for the first time (read more)
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Was Medieval France (even partly) Islamic? New Evidence Suggests So
Evidence of likely early medieval Muslim graves found in France (read more)
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Early Kinship and Community Displayed at Newly-Examined Spanish Megalithic Tomb
Neolithic megalithic tomb in Spain comprehensively examined for the first time (read more)
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Whipworm, Roundworm, Parasites. What did the Romans ever do for us?
Roman toilets gave no clear health benefit, and Romanization actually spread parasites (read more)
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Mammoth to Go? Paleolithic Disposable Cutlery Found
The rich array of artifacts shows a mix of techniques dating to early Upper Paleolithic (read more)
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Flowers traced to Paleolithic burial site
The most plausible hypothesis is that complete flowers were placed on the tomb (read more)
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Neolithic Gear-Sluts Formed Social Bonds
Neolithic archery could have had a significant community and social role, as well as providing social prestige (read more)
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Milk’s Longterm Human Legacy
The milk of all three major dairy livestock–cattle, sheep and goats–has been consumed by human populations for at least 5,000 years (read more)
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From the Frozen Aisle : One Entire Bison
The Yukagir bison mummy, as it is named, has a complete brain, heart, blood vessels and digestive system (read more)