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Why Do We Have Eyebrows? Finally We Have an Evolutionary Explanation

11/04/2018

Why expressive brows might have mattered in human evolution...

Bubble, bubble, plop! Your Dad Didn’t Invent Homebrew Wine

16/11/2017

Archaeologists find earliest evidence of winemaking...

Stone Age Swipe Right: The Truth About Prehistoric Dating

09/10/2017

Prehistoric humans are likely to have formed mating networks to avoid inbreeding ...

In the Hands of Cod – How Fish Unified Europe Before Brussels

08/08/2017

DNA from Viking cod bones suggests 1,000-year history of European fish trade...

Don’t Fear the Reaper: Domestication of Seeds was Earlier than We Thought

17/07/2017

Synchrotron light used to show human domestication of seeds from 2000 BC ...

By the Breath of Horus! Genome Data from Egyptian Mummies

01/06/2017

Study finds that ancient Egyptians were most closely related to ancient populations from the Near East...

Guess Which Parts of the Brain Were Used for Stone Age Tech

11/05/2017

Changes in Early Stone Age tool production have 'musical' ties ...

Pointillism Photo and drawing by R. Bourrillon

But it’s How I See It! Pointillism from 38,000 Years Ago

05/03/2017

38,000-year-old engravings confirm ancient origins of technique used by Seurat, Van Gogh ...

Bite Me, Reptiles! Mammals Had Venom First

16/02/2017

A kiss of death -- mammals were the first animals to produce venom ...

Seven years in Tibet? Try 13,000

08/01/2017

Research sheds new light on high-altitude settlement in Tibet ...

Nothing New Under the Sun – How Prehistory Tackled Global Warming

29/12/2016

Computer models find ancient solutions to modern problems ...

Tastes Like Cabbage: The Deep Origins of Cooked Veggies

23/12/2016

Earliest evidence discovered of plants cooked in ancient pottery ...

Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff: Exposing Ancient Cereal Cultivation

08/12/2016

Prehistoric plant remains highlight diverse origins of cereal domestication ...

Black is the New Pink. Black Pigs, Better Bacon

25/09/2016

New mutation found that suggests humans across the world have selected and bred black pigs...

Slim Shadysaurus: What We’ve Learned From the Patterns on a Psittacosaurus

24/09/2016

What dinosaurs' color patterns say about their lives ...

Then Wash Your Hands: The Pathogens of Prehistoric Poo

23/07/2016

Ancient feces provides earliest evidence of infectious disease being carried on Silk Road ...

Alaska and Asia: The Trans-Pacific Trading Partnership that Pre-dates Columbus

08/06/2016

Old World metals traded on Alaska coast hundreds of years before contact with Europeans ...

Is it Done Yet? Archaeologists Find 5000 Year-Old Recipe for Beer

24/05/2016

Revealing a 5000-year-old beer recipe in China...

Don’t Eat the Meatballs? The Real Message of Sweden’s Rök Runestone

05/05/2016

New interpretation of the Rök runestone inscription changes view of Viking Age ...

Do You Have a Postcode for that, Sir? Archaeologists Discover Outer Reaches of the Silk Road

04/04/2016

Nepali textile find suggests Silk Road extended further south than previously thought ...

The 1-400 by Terry Kerby, Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory University of Hawai'i620

Scuttled, Sunk and, er, Mislaid. The Wreck of the 1-400 Mega-Submarine

22/03/2016

Bronze bell recovered from World War II aircraft-carrying submarine off Oahu coast ...

No Mod Cons, But a Spectacular View. Where our Human Ancestors Lived

12/03/2016

Scientists piece together an early human habitat for the first time...

Was Medieval France (even partly) Islamic? New Evidence Suggests So

27/02/2016

Evidence of likely early medieval Muslim graves found in France ...

Early Kinship and Community Displayed at Newly-Examined Spanish Megalithic Tomb

25/01/2016

Neolithic megalithic tomb in Spain comprehensively examined for the first time ...

Whipworm, Roundworm, Parasites. What did the Romans ever do for us?

17/01/2016

Roman toilets gave no clear health benefit, and Romanization actually spread parasites ...

Paleolithic tools by Aaron Stutz, Emory University.

Mammoth to Go? Paleolithic Disposable Cutlery Found

15/06/2015

The rich array of artifacts shows a mix of techniques dating to early Upper Paleolithic...

Flowers traced to Paleolithic burial site

13/05/2015

The most plausible hypothesis is that complete flowers were placed on the tomb...

Neolithic Gear-Sluts Formed Social Bonds

04/02/2015

Neolithic archery could have had a significant community and social role, as well as providing social prestige...

Milk by freedigitalphotos.net and Danilo Rizzuti

Milk’s Longterm Human Legacy

01/12/2014

The milk of all three major dairy livestock--cattle, sheep and goats--has been consumed by human populations for at least 5,000 years...

Blue Ice by freedigitalphotos.net and Cnaene

From the Frozen Aisle : One Entire Bison

08/11/2014

The Yukagir bison mummy, as it is named, has a complete brain, heart, blood vessels and digestive system...

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