Archaeology

  1. Archaeology

    Bronze Age humans racked up travel miles

    A new study indicates long journeys and unexpected genetic links in Bronze Age Eurasian cultures.

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  2. Humans

    How Homo sapiens became world’s dominant species

    'First Peoples' dispels old ideas about human evolution and tells an updated tale of how Homo sapiens came to dominate the world.

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  3. Archaeology

    Earliest known stone tools unearthed in Kenya

    East African discoveries suggest stone-tool making started at least 3.3 million years ago.

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  4. Astronomy

    Wandering planets, the smell of rain and more reader feedback

    Readers consider how hard it would be to fashion Paleolithic tools, discuss what to call free-floating worlds and more.

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  5. Anthropology

    Pots from hunter-gatherer site in China tell tale of lifestyle shift

    Chinese foragers settled down and made pottery shortly before farming’s ascent.

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  6. Anthropology

    Ritual cannibalism occurred in England 14,700 years ago

    Human bones show signs of ritual cannibalism in England 14,700 years ago.

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  7. Particle Physics

    Particle hunting in space, life in the urban jungle and more reader feedback

    Readers discuss wheat's journey to England, share stories about urban wildlife and more.

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  8. Anthropology

    Beads suggest culture blocked farming in Northern Europe

    Baltic hunter-gatherers blocked farming’s spread from south.

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  9. Anthropology

    Ancient Homo fossils found in Kenya

    Finds from three individuals add to skeletal diversity of early members of human genus.

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  10. Anthropology

    ‘Little Foot’ pushes back age of earliest South African hominids

    Study suggests Lucy’s species had a South African foil nearly 3.7 million years ago.

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  11. Astronomy

    What’s in a name? In science, a lot

    Classification systems are essential to science. But any classification system, however useful, is ultimately simplistic.

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  12. Archaeology

    Telling stories from stone tools

    Existing stone tool categories may hide more than they reveal. New methods for analyzing stone artifacts aim to better reconstruct how hominids interacted and moved across Africa, Asia and Europe.

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