Search Results for: Mammoths

Anthropology

A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Paleo diet: rotten meat

The realization that people have long eaten putrid foods has archaeologists rethinking what Neandertals and other ancient hominids ate.

Genetics

The oldest animal DNA ever recovered reveals mammoths’ evolution

Mammoths evolved to handle the cold over hundreds of thousands of years and North America may been home to a hybrid species, a new study finds.

Life

‘Life as We Made It’ charts the past and future of genetic tinkering

A new book shatters illusions that human meddling with nature has only just begun.

Archaeology

‘Origin’ explores the controversial science of the first Americans

A new book looks at how genetics has affected the study of humans’ arrival in the Americas and sparked conflicts with Indigenous groups today.

Anthropology

‘Ghost tracks’ suggest people came to the Americas earlier than once thought

Prehistoric people’s footprints show that humans were in North America during the height of the last ice age, researchers say.

Humans

The longest trail of fossilized human footprints hints at a risky Ice Age trek

Researchers have discovered the world's longest trail of fossilized human footprints at White Sands National Park, New Mexico.

Anthropology

Finds in a Spanish cave inspire an artistic take on warm-weather Neandertals

Iberia’s mild climate fostered a host of resources for hominids often pegged as mammoth hunters.

Anthropology

‘The Dawn of Everything’ rewrites 40,000 years of human history

A new book recasts human social evolution as multiple experiments with freedom and domination that started in the Stone Age.

Archaeology

Two stones fuel debate over when America’s first settlers arrived

Stones possibly used to break mastodon bones 130,000 years ago in what is now California get fresh scrutiny.

Archaeology

This is one of the largest Ice Age structures made of mammoth bones

A massive ring of mammoth bones, built by hunter-gatherers during the Ice Age, offers a peek at life 25,000 years ago.