Archaeology

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::	Archaeology

Top Stories | February 12

Tools of a kind
People in southern Arabia around 100,000 years ago made tools like those of East Africans.
Yamandu Hilbert
Neandertals’ mammoth building project
Stone Age people’s evolutionary cousins may have constructed earliest bone structures.
FOR KIDS: Digging into the Maya mystery
In a Central American jungle, archaeologists and volunteers uncover ruins of the once-powerful civilization
Humans’ entry into Europe pushed earlier
Homo sapiens fossils from Italy and England point to an early arrival and a longer time living alongside Neandertals.
Early farmers’ fishy menu
Northern Europeans retained a taste for aquatic foods after farmers arrived 6,000 years ago.

:: More in Archaeology

Northern Europeans retained a taste for aquatic foods after farmers arrived 6,000 years ago.

The discovery of tools for making a substance possibly used in body decoration suggests humans could invent and plan by 100,000 years ago.

New genetic data show that some early migrants interbred with a mysterious Neandertal sister group.

Homo erectus may have made both advanced and simple tools 1.76 million years ago.

A mammoth engraved on a fossil may date from at least 13,000 year ago.

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