Archaeology

  1. Humans

    European cave art gets older

    Ancient illustrations in northern Spain date to more than 40,000 years ago.

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  2. Humans

    Stone Age art gets animated

    Cave paintings and decorated disks provided moving experiences in ancient Europe.

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  3. Humans

    Maya wall calendar discovered

    Classic-era structure displays rare calculations of lunar and planetary cycles.

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  4. Humans

    From the ashes, the oldest controlled fire

    A South Africa cave yields the oldest secure evidence for a blaze controlled by human ancestors.

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  5. Humans

    Shelters date to Stone Age

    Middle Eastern foragers inhabited dwellings for months at a time around 20,000 years ago.

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  6. Archaeology

    Archaeoacoustics: Tantalizing, but fantastical

    While compelling, findings lack scientific rigor.

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  7. Humans

    Tools of a kind

    People in southern Arabia around 100,000 years ago made tools like those of East Africans.

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  8. Humans

    Neandertals’ mammoth building project

    Stone Age people’s evolutionary cousins may have constructed earliest bone structures.

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  9. Humans

    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.

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  10. Humans

    Early farmers’ fishy menu

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

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  11. Humans

    Stone Age paint shop unearthed

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

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  12. Humans

    Humans reached Asia in two waves

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

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