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A 2.6-million-year-old jaw from Ethiopia reveals that Paranthropus was far more widespread and adaptable than once thought. Robust did not mean restricted. #Archaeology #HumanOrigins #Paleoanthropology #Evolution www.anthropology.net/p/the-robust...
The Robust Hominin That Refused to Stay Put
A 2.6-million-year-old jaw from Ethiopia forces a rethink of Paranthropus and its place in human evolution
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January 22, 2026 at 3:23 AM
A 2.6-million-year-old jaw from Ethiopia reveals that Paranthropus was far more widespread and adaptable than once thought. Robust did not mean restricted. #Archaeology #HumanOrigins #Paleoanthropology #Evolution www.anthropology.net/p/the-robust...
A 500,000-year-old tool made from elephant bone, found in England, reveals how early humans used rare materials to sharpen Acheulean handaxes with precision. Ingenuity leaves quiet traces. #Archaeology #HumanOrigins #Acheulean #Paleoanthropology
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The Elephant Bone That Sharpened Stone
A half-million-year-old tool from southern England reveals surprising skill in Acheulean hands
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January 22, 2026 at 3:17 AM
A 500,000-year-old tool made from elephant bone, found in England, reveals how early humans used rare materials to sharpen Acheulean handaxes with precision. Ingenuity leaves quiet traces. #Archaeology #HumanOrigins #Acheulean #Paleoanthropology
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A hand pressed to stone nearly 68,000 years ago is now the oldest known rock art on Earth. New findings from Sulawesi reshape what we know about early human art and migration. #Archaeology #Anthropology #HumanOrigins #RockArt www.anthropology.net/p/the-oldest...
The Oldest Human Signature on Stone
A 67,800-year-old hand stencil from Indonesia redraws the map of human creativity and migration
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January 22, 2026 at 3:10 AM
A hand pressed to stone nearly 68,000 years ago is now the oldest known rock art on Earth. New findings from Sulawesi reshape what we know about early human art and migration. #Archaeology #Anthropology #HumanOrigins #RockArt www.anthropology.net/p/the-oldest...
Humans returned to Ice Age Britain earlier than we thought. A brief spike in summer warmth around 15,200 years ago was enough to draw hunters north with reindeer and horses. Climate, timing, and survival. #Archaeology #Paleolithic #HumanEvolution #ClimateHistory www.anthropology.net/p/when-summe...
When Summer Returned, Humans Followed
How a brief warming window brought people back to the edge of Ice Age Britain
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January 19, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Humans returned to Ice Age Britain earlier than we thought. A brief spike in summer warmth around 15,200 years ago was enough to draw hunters north with reindeer and horses. Climate, timing, and survival. #Archaeology #Paleolithic #HumanEvolution #ClimateHistory www.anthropology.net/p/when-summe...
A newly discovered Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals long, powerful arms and a body caught between climbing and walking. Early humans were more flexible than we thought. #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology #Fossils www.anthropology.net/p/a-skeleton...
A Skeleton Steps Out of the Shadows
A newly discovered Homo habilis body reshapes our picture of early human life
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January 14, 2026 at 8:58 PM
A newly discovered Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals long, powerful arms and a body caught between climbing and walking. Early humans were more flexible than we thought. #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology #Fossils www.anthropology.net/p/a-skeleton...
Iron Age teeth from southern Italy reveal childhood stress, fermented foods, and daily survival written in enamel and plaque. A reminder that archaeology starts with bodies, not ruins. #Archaeology #Bioarchaeology #AncientDiet #IronAge www.anthropology.net/p/what-ancie...
What Ancient Teeth Remember
How Iron Age Italians carried childhood stress and daily meals in their smiles
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January 14, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Iron Age teeth from southern Italy reveal childhood stress, fermented foods, and daily survival written in enamel and plaque. A reminder that archaeology starts with bodies, not ruins. #Archaeology #Bioarchaeology #AncientDiet #IronAge www.anthropology.net/p/what-ancie...
Two blue-green sherds in the Gobi tell a big story. New research shows Persian glazeware reached nomadic herders in Mongolia, reshaping how we see Silk Road trade. #Archaeology #SilkRoad #InnerAsia www.anthropology.net/p/blue-green...
Blue-Green Ceramics in the Gobi
How two glazed fragments reveal Persian connections at the edge of the desert
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January 13, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Two blue-green sherds in the Gobi tell a big story. New research shows Persian glazeware reached nomadic herders in Mongolia, reshaping how we see Silk Road trade. #Archaeology #SilkRoad #InnerAsia www.anthropology.net/p/blue-green...
Broken pots, not grand ports, are rewriting the story of ancient Samos. A new survey shows rural life was local, resilient, and quietly central to the island’s economy. Read more. #Archaeology #Aegean #LandscapeHistory www.anthropology.net/p/the-quiet-...
The Quiet Hills of Samos, Reconsidered
What broken pots and careful walking reveal about an island that fed itself while the ships sailed by
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January 13, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Broken pots, not grand ports, are rewriting the story of ancient Samos. A new survey shows rural life was local, resilient, and quietly central to the island’s economy. Read more. #Archaeology #Aegean #LandscapeHistory www.anthropology.net/p/the-quiet-...
Risk-taking isn't just for teens. New data on infant chimp leaps suggests early ontogeny—not adolescence—is the primary window for high-stakes motor learning. Crucial for understanding human evolutionary life history. 🐒🦴 #Anthropolgy #Primatology
Baby chimps take the biggest risks, not teens. A new study shows how early danger, falling bodies, and limited supervision shaped chimp behavior and may explain why humans delay risk until adolescence. #Anthropology #Evolution #Primatology #HumanOrigins www.primatology.net/p/when-baby-...
When Baby Chimps Leap First
What risky chimpanzee play reveals about the deep roots of human care
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January 10, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Risk-taking isn't just for teens. New data on infant chimp leaps suggests early ontogeny—not adolescence—is the primary window for high-stakes motor learning. Crucial for understanding human evolutionary life history. 🐒🦴 #Anthropolgy #Primatology
CT scans of a 1,100 year old mummy from Chile reveal death by mine collapse. A rare look at the risks ancient miners faced to extract turquoise traded across the Andes. #Archaeology #Anthropology #Osteoarchaeology #AncientMining #Atacama www.anthropology.net/p/the-cost-o...
The Cost of Blue Stone
What a crushed spine in the Atacama Desert reveals about danger, labor, and ancient mining
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January 10, 2026 at 1:46 PM
CT scans of a 1,100 year old mummy from Chile reveal death by mine collapse. A rare look at the risks ancient miners faced to extract turquoise traded across the Andes. #Archaeology #Anthropology #Osteoarchaeology #AncientMining #Atacama www.anthropology.net/p/the-cost-o...
Whale hunting began 5,000 years ago on Brazil’s coast, long before Arctic whalers. Bone harpoons from sambaquis reveal deep maritime knowledge and cooperation. A forgotten chapter of ocean history. #Archaeology #Anthropology #Whaling #IndigenousHistory #MaritimeCulture
Harpoons Before History Remembered
How 5,000 year old whale hunters on Brazil’s coast rewrote the origins of maritime life
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January 10, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Whale hunting began 5,000 years ago on Brazil’s coast, long before Arctic whalers. Bone harpoons from sambaquis reveal deep maritime knowledge and cooperation. A forgotten chapter of ocean history. #Archaeology #Anthropology #Whaling #IndigenousHistory #MaritimeCulture
Two small clay cylinders finally give Nebuchadnezzar II his voice. A firsthand account of restoring the ziggurat of Kish, written in cuneiform and buried for millennia. When kings speak through clay. #Archaeology #AncientMesopotamia #Cuneiform #History www.anthropology.net/p/when-a-kin...
When a King Spoke in Clay
How two small cylinders from Kish preserve Nebuchadnezzar II’s voice and fix a missing chapter in Mesopotamian history
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January 10, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Two small clay cylinders finally give Nebuchadnezzar II his voice. A firsthand account of restoring the ziggurat of Kish, written in cuneiform and buried for millennia. When kings speak through clay. #Archaeology #AncientMesopotamia #Cuneiform #History www.anthropology.net/p/when-a-kin...
A cave in Sulawesi preserves over 200,000 years of human history. Deep layers hint that Homo sapiens may have overlapped with an earlier human species. Who shared the island, and when? #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Pleistocene #Wallacea www.anthropology.net/p/a-cave-tha...
A Cave That Refuses to Be Silent
Deep beneath Sulawesi, a single site preserves nearly the entire human story of an island, and hints that different kinds of humans may once have shared the same ground.
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January 9, 2026 at 12:55 AM
A cave in Sulawesi preserves over 200,000 years of human history. Deep layers hint that Homo sapiens may have overlapped with an earlier human species. Who shared the island, and when? #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Pleistocene #Wallacea www.anthropology.net/p/a-cave-tha...
Fossils from a Moroccan cave dated to 773,000 years ago may sit near the root of our lineage. Jawbones, teeth, and a magnetic flip in Earth’s field reshape early human history. #HumanEvolution #Archaeology #Paleoanthropology www.anthropology.net/p/at-the-roo...
At the Root of Our Family Tree, on the Moroccan Coast
773,000-year-old fossils from Casablanca hint at an African population close to the last common ancestor of humans, Neandertals, and Denisovans
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January 7, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Fossils from a Moroccan cave dated to 773,000 years ago may sit near the root of our lineage. Jawbones, teeth, and a magnetic flip in Earth’s field reshape early human history. #HumanEvolution #Archaeology #Paleoanthropology www.anthropology.net/p/at-the-roo...
Poisoned arrows are far older than we thought. Chemical traces on 60,000-year-old stone tips show early Homo sapiens mastering plant toxins, planning hunts days ahead, and thinking chemically. #Archaeology #Anthropology #HumanOrigins #Paleoanthropology www.anthropology.net/p/poison-on-...
Poison on the Wind
How 60,000-year-old arrows reveal the chemical intelligence of early Homo sapiens
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January 7, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Poisoned arrows are far older than we thought. Chemical traces on 60,000-year-old stone tips show early Homo sapiens mastering plant toxins, planning hunts days ahead, and thinking chemically. #Archaeology #Anthropology #HumanOrigins #Paleoanthropology www.anthropology.net/p/poison-on-...
Pigs crossed the Wallace Line when most animals could not. Their DNA now reveals 50,000 years of human island hopping, from Ice Age foragers to Austronesian farmers. Migration written in pork. #Archaeology #Anthropology #AncientDNA #Pacific #HumanMigration www.anthropology.net/p/the-pigs-t...
The Pigs That Traveled
How island hopping swine carry the genetic record of ancient human journeys across the Pacific
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January 4, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Pigs crossed the Wallace Line when most animals could not. Their DNA now reveals 50,000 years of human island hopping, from Ice Age foragers to Austronesian farmers. Migration written in pork. #Archaeology #Anthropology #AncientDNA #Pacific #HumanMigration www.anthropology.net/p/the-pigs-t...
The Great Steppe finally gets its place on the genomic map. A new open dataset reveals how Kazakh DNA bridges East and West, with clues for ancestry, culture, and precision medicine. #Genomics #Anthropology #CentralAsia #Science www.anthropology.net/p/the-genome...
The Genomes of the Great Steppe
How Kazakh DNA Is Rewriting the Genetic Map of Eurasia
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January 4, 2026 at 4:46 AM
The Great Steppe finally gets its place on the genomic map. A new open dataset reveals how Kazakh DNA bridges East and West, with clues for ancestry, culture, and precision medicine. #Genomics #Anthropology #CentralAsia #Science www.anthropology.net/p/the-genome...
Did our ancestors walk upright earlier than we thought? New analysis shows Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal 7 million years ago, pushing the origins of human walking to the dawn of our lineage. #Archaeology #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Bipedalism #Fossils www.anthropology.net/p/standing-u...
Standing Up in the Sahel
New fossils suggest upright walking began earlier than we thought
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January 2, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Did our ancestors walk upright earlier than we thought? New analysis shows Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal 7 million years ago, pushing the origins of human walking to the dawn of our lineage. #Archaeology #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Bipedalism #Fossils www.anthropology.net/p/standing-u...
A single tooth from Siberia has yielded a 200,000 year old Denisovan genome. It reveals repeated mixing with Neanderthals, deep population turnover, and why Denisovan DNA lives on in us today. #Archaeology #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #AncientDNA #Denisovans www.anthropology.net/p/a-tooth-fr...
A Tooth From a Different World
What a 200,000 year old Denisovan genome reveals about deep human entanglements
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January 2, 2026 at 11:25 PM
A single tooth from Siberia has yielded a 200,000 year old Denisovan genome. It reveals repeated mixing with Neanderthals, deep population turnover, and why Denisovan DNA lives on in us today. #Archaeology #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #AncientDNA #Denisovans www.anthropology.net/p/a-tooth-fr...
Ancient DNA has uncovered 2,500 years of herpesvirus history hidden in human bones. Some viruses did not just infect us, they became part of us. A deep past written in genomes. #Archaeology #Anthropology #AncientDNA #HumanEvolution #Virology www.anthropology.net/p/the-virus-...
The Virus That Stayed
Ancient DNA reveals a 2,500 year partnership between humans and herpesviruses
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January 2, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Ancient DNA has uncovered 2,500 years of herpesvirus history hidden in human bones. Some viruses did not just infect us, they became part of us. A deep past written in genomes. #Archaeology #Anthropology #AncientDNA #HumanEvolution #Virology www.anthropology.net/p/the-virus-...
A 9,500-year-old cremation pyre in Malawi reveals Africa’s earliest known intentional cremation. Built by hunter-gatherers, it shows deep ritual, labor, and memory tied to place. #Archaeology #Anthropology #HumanOrigins #Africa #Ritual www.anthropology.net/p/a-fire-at-...
A Fire at the Foot of the Mountain
What Africa’s oldest known cremation reveals about memory, labor, and ritual among ancient foragers
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January 1, 2026 at 10:58 PM
A 9,500-year-old cremation pyre in Malawi reveals Africa’s earliest known intentional cremation. Built by hunter-gatherers, it shows deep ritual, labor, and memory tied to place. #Archaeology #Anthropology #HumanOrigins #Africa #Ritual www.anthropology.net/p/a-fire-at-...
Early Homo sapiens may have hunted with bows and arrows in Eurasia 40,000 years ago. New experiments show ancient bone points fit multiple weapons, challenging linear tech timelines. #Paleolithic #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #ExperimentalArchaeology www.anthropology.net/p/before-the...
Before the Bow Had a Name
How early Homo sapiens may have mastered long-range hunting far earlier than the archaeological record once allowed
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December 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Early Homo sapiens may have hunted with bows and arrows in Eurasia 40,000 years ago. New experiments show ancient bone points fit multiple weapons, challenging linear tech timelines. #Paleolithic #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #ExperimentalArchaeology www.anthropology.net/p/before-the...
More than 600 homes on one Irish hilltop reveal a Bronze Age experiment in living together. Brusselstown Ring challenges ideas of small, scattered settlements and hints at cooperation without clear hierarchy. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Ireland #Hillforts @antiquity.ac.uk
When Hills Became Neighborhoods
How a vast Irish hillfort forces a rethink of Bronze Age life, scale, and planning
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December 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
More than 600 homes on one Irish hilltop reveal a Bronze Age experiment in living together. Brusselstown Ring challenges ideas of small, scattered settlements and hints at cooperation without clear hierarchy. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Ireland #Hillforts @antiquity.ac.uk
Macaws did not merely pass through Chaco Canyon. New analysis shows they lived for decades inside great houses, carefully housed in plastered rooms for ceremonial life. Feathers, architecture, and care converged. #Archaeology #ChacoCanyon #Zooarchaeology #Pueblo www.anthropology.net/p/feathers-i...
Feathers in the Stone: How Chaco Canyon’s Macaws Lived, Traveled, and Were Revered
Bird remains from Chaco Canyon suggest that macaws & parrots were not curiosities or trade trophies, but carefully housed ceremonial beings whose presence reshaped great houses and rituals
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December 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Macaws did not merely pass through Chaco Canyon. New analysis shows they lived for decades inside great houses, carefully housed in plastered rooms for ceremonial life. Feathers, architecture, and care converged. #Archaeology #ChacoCanyon #Zooarchaeology #Pueblo www.anthropology.net/p/feathers-i...
Bone arrow points from Argentina’s Sierras de Córdoba reveal careful craft traditions, family-based learning, and social signaling in mobile Late Prehispanic communities. Weapons made from guanaco bone carried meaning as well as force. #Archaeology #Osteoarchaeology #SouthAmerica #Prehistory
The Quiet Precision of Bone: How Arrow Points Tell the Story of Late Prehispanic Life in Argentina
In the Sierras de Córdoba, bone arrow points reveal a disciplined craft tradition shaped by mobility, kinship, and conflict. A new technological study reframes how prehistoric communities organized.
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December 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Bone arrow points from Argentina’s Sierras de Córdoba reveal careful craft traditions, family-based learning, and social signaling in mobile Late Prehispanic communities. Weapons made from guanaco bone carried meaning as well as force. #Archaeology #Osteoarchaeology #SouthAmerica #Prehistory