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Physics meets Polynesian ingenuity: new research confirms that Easter Island’s moai “walked” upright across the landscape using balance, rhythm, and rope—turning myth into mechanics. #Archaeology #RapaNui #AncientEngineering #Science www.anthropology.net/p/when-giant...
When Giants Walked: How Rapa Nui’s Moai Moved Themselves into History
New archaeological evidence & physics-based experiments show that Easter Island’s colossal statues didn’t just stand; they walked, revealing the ingenuity of one of the world’s most misunderstood isla
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New @science.org Advances model finds all small-scale societies—from Inuit to Amazonian farmers—obey the same law of innovation: each new tool costs more than it gives. The politics of invention began long before the state.
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The Politics of Tools: How Small-Scale Societies Engineered the First Technologies of Power
Even the simplest toolkits, those of hunter-gatherers & early farmers, follow deep mathematical laws of innovation, revealing how efficiency, scarcity & identity shaped hierarchies
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New excavations in Shandong reveal that early Zhou ritual platforms shaped China’s first shared identities long before the First Emperor. Political unity began not with conquest, but with communion. #Archaeology #Anthropology #China #StateFormation @antiquity.ac.uk
The Politics of Sacred Earth: How Ritual Platforms Helped Shape Early Chinese Identity
New excavations at Qianzhongzitou reveal that the roots of China’s unification lay not in imperial conquest, but in the politics of shared ritual and belonging.
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Anthropology.net @anthropology.net · 19h
New evidence from Patagonian hunter-gatherers shows that even in the harshest environments, care for the injured and disabled was a shared human commitment—not a luxury. #Archaeology #Paleopathology #HumanEvolution #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/the-wounde...
The Wounded and the Cared For: How Ancient Patagonians Showed Humanity at the Edge of the World
New research on Late Holocene hunter-gatherers in Patagonia reveals a culture of care that endured through injury, disability, and the harshest conditions on Earth.
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Anthropology.net @anthropology.net · 23h
Ancient teeth from Neolithic Syria reveal how the first farmers balanced rooted village life with mobility and inclusion—showing that even 10,000 years ago, belonging was chemical as much as cultural. #Archaeology #Neolithic #HumanOrigins #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/when-villa...
When Villages Became Home: How Ancient Teeth Reveal the Rise of Belonging in the First Farming Societies
New isotopic evidence from Neolithic Syria shows how early villagers built lasting ties to place, balanced mobility with inclusion, and began to define what it meant to belong.
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A new study suggests Teotihuacan’s murals may record an early Uto-Aztecan language, linking the ancient city to the Aztecs a millennium later. The metropolis may not have been silent after all. #Archaeology #Linguistics #Mesoamerica #Teotihuacan www.anthropology.net/p/the-lost-l...
The Lost Language of Teotihuacan: How Two Linguists May Have Found the Voice of a Forgotten Empire
A new study argues that the ancient murals of Teotihuacan may record an early ancestor of the Uto-Aztecan languages, bridging a thousand-year gap between the city’s fall and the rise of the Aztecs.
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Archaeologists in Poland discovered a 3,000-year-old child’s urn containing beetle jewelry—fragile, iridescent, and symbolic of renewal. A Bronze Age gesture of love preserved by bronze chemistry. #Archaeology #IronAge #Anthropology #Poland @antiquity.ac.uk www.anthropology.net/p/the-beetle...
The Beetle Necklace: How a Child’s Burial in Bronze Age Poland Captures the Poetry of Life and Death
In a 3,000-year-old urn, archaeologists found the fragile remains of beetles, threaded together on a blade of grass. What they uncovered may be one of the most delicate expressions of human grief ever
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Centuries-old nests of the Bearded Vulture in Spain hold bones, sandals, and crossbow bolts—an accidental record of human history. Nature’s own archaeology in flight. #Paleoecology #Anthropocene #Ornithology #Archaeology www.anthropology.net/p/time-capsu...
Time Capsules in Feathers and Bone: How Bearded Vultures Became Unwitting Archaeologists
For centuries, Europe’s largest vulture has been hoarding bones and human-made artifacts in cliffside nests—preserving a quiet archive of the Anthropocene.
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Archaeologists in China’s first city, Liangzhu, found human bones shaped into cups and masks—most left unfinished and discarded. A glimpse into how urban life reshaped death. #Archaeology #Neolithic #China #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/what-worke...
What Worked Human Remains Reveal About the Rise of Liangzhu’s First Cities
In the canals of China’s earliest urban society, archaeologists have found human bones shaped into cups, masks, and fragments. Their unfinished forms hint at a profound shift in how death was viewed.
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Early South Americans weren’t just occasional hunters of giant sloths and mastodons—they depended on them. New evidence shows megafauna were dietary staples, sharpening debate over human-driven extinctions. #Archaeology #Anthropology #IceAge #Megafauna www.anthropology.net/p/when-giant...
When Giant Sloths Were Dinner: The Human Appetite That Helped End the Ice Age Giants
New evidence from Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay shows that early South Americans relied heavily on megafauna, reshaping the debate over human responsibility in Pleistocene extinctions.
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Why do women outlive men? A global study of 1,100 bird & mammal species finds sex-based lifespan gaps are written into evolution, shaped by chromosomes, mating, & parenting. #Evolution #Anthropology #Longevity #Biology www.anthropology.net/p/why-males-...
Why Males Die Younger: Evolution’s Imprint on Lifespan
A global study across 1,100 species shows that sex differences in longevity are written into the very fabric of biology, shaped by chromosomes, courtship, and the demands of parenting.
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Anthropology.net @anthropology.net · 5d
New study of 7,000-year-old seeds in Germany shows Neolithic farmers expanded beyond einkorn & emmer, betting on barley & naked wheat to spread risk. Early agriculture was dynamic, not static. #Archaeology #Neolithic #Anthropology #FarmingHistory www.anthropology.net/p/when-farme...
When Farmers Gambled on Diversity: How Neolithic Communities in the Rhineland Transformed Their Fields
A new archaeobotanical study reveals how early European farmers shifted from einkorn and emmer to a more flexible, risk-spreading crop strategy nearly 7,000 years ago.
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We're heartbroken to share that Jane Goodall has died. She wasn't just a scientist; she was an iconoclast who showed the world that chimps have tool-making, complex emotions, and families... just like us.

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Jane Goodall, chimpanzee expert and animal rights campaigner, dies age 91 - follow live
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Anthropology.net @anthropology.net · 6d
Neanderthals thrived in the Ice Age not just through stocky bodies, but with fire, clothing, and high-calorie diets. New research shows cold survival was cultural, anatomical, and physiological. #Neanderthals #HumanEvolution #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/how-neande...
How Neanderthals Met the Ice Age on Every Front
New research shows that Homo neanderthalensis combined technology, anatomy, and physiology to withstand Ice Age extremes
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13,000 years ago, Ice Age foragers in Germany used vivid blue azurite—the earliest known in Europe. Not for cave walls, but likely for skin or fabric. A lost palette of the past resurfaces. #Archaeology #Palaeolithic #HumanEvolution
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When the Ice Age Turned Blue: The First Azurite Pigment of Europe
A 13,000-year-old stone from Germany holds traces of the earliest blue pigment ever found in European prehistory, expanding our view of how humans played with color at the edge of the Ice Age.
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2,500 years ago, Iberians carved myth into stone. At dawn on the solstice, a monolith’s shadow entered a rock womb—enacting a cosmic union of sun & earth. Fertility, power & time aligned. #Archaeology #Iberians #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/stones-of-...
Stones of Sun and Shadow: A Solstice Sanctuary in Iberia
How Iberian myths of fertility, death, and rebirth were carved into the land 2,500 years ago
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12,000 years ago, desert dwellers in Arabia carved monumental camels into cliffs—signs of water, memory, and survival. Rock art was more than imagery; it was a lifeline. #Archaeology #Anthropology #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/how-monume...
How Monumental Art Helped Humans Thrive in Arabia’s Harshest Desert
Twelve-thousand-year-old engravings in northern Arabia reveal how early desert communities used monumental art to mark water, memory, and survival.
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Anthropology.net @anthropology.net · 6d
New fossil research shows humans reshaped mammal communities more than the Ice Age. Farming and livestock spread scrambled natural ecosystems, linking continents with the same domesticated animals. #Archaeology #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Ecology www.anthropology.net/p/how-humans...
How Humans Rewired the Animal World
Fossil evidence shows that agriculture and domestication reshaped mammal communities more than the Ice Age extinctions
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Anthropology.net @anthropology.net · 8d
At a 3,000-year-old Georgian smelting site, copper workers stockpiled iron-rich rocks to boost their furnaces—showing the skills that paved the way for iron itself. #Archaeology #Caucasus #IronAge #Metallurgy www.anthropology.net/p/how-copper...
How Copper Smelters in the Caucasus Pioneered the Knowledge that Led to Iron
Reanalysis of a 3,000-year-old smelting workshop in Georgia shows how Bronze Age metallurgists mastered iron-rich fluxes—laying the cognitive groundwork for the Iron Age.
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Ancient nets hidden in Jomon pottery sherds reveal Japan’s oldest fishing technology. X-ray CT reconstructs 6,000-year-old knots and mesh, showing how tools were recycled into ceramics. #Jomon #Archaeology #Japan #FishingHistory www.anthropology.net/p/nets-in-cl...
Nets in Clay: How Jomon Pottery Preserved Japan’s Oldest Fishing Technology
A six-millennia-old window onto the lives of coastal foragers
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Ancient DNA from Mongolian burials shows two Bronze Age herder groups coexisted for centuries before Slab Grave newcomers displaced them. A rare window on coexistence, migration & identity. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #AncientDNA www.anthropology.net/p/when-two-w...
When Two Worlds Met on the Steppe
New genomic evidence reveals how Bronze Age herders coexisted—and then vanished—in Mongolia’s Orkhon Valley
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Wood and bone tally sticks from England, China & the Maya world show money began as state accounting—not barter. New research reframes our economic origins. #Anthropology #Archaeology #Money #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/counting-p...
Counting Power: What Ancient Tally Sticks Tell Us About the Origins of Money
Wooden and bone sticks from England, China, and the Maya world show how governments—not barter—first created money
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A 4,500-year-old hippopotamus ivory object from a Copper Age hut near Barcelona reveals long-distance trade routes and textile traditions in prehistoric Iberia. #Archaeology #Prehistory #HumanEvolution #Iberia www.anthropology.net/p/an-ivory-t...
An Ivory Thread Across the Mediterranean: A Copper Age Object in Catalonia
A hippopotamus tooth from a prehistoric hut in Barcelona reframes the reach of ancient exchange networks
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A 1-million-year-old skull from China links Homo longi, Denisovans & early Homo sapiens, reshaping our view of human origins in Asia. #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Denisovans www.anthropology.net/p/a-skull-fr...
A Skull from China Rewrites the Story of Our Genus
How the million-year-old Yunxian cranium connects Homo longi, the Denisovans, and the roots of Homo sapiens
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A 1-million-year-old skull from China links Homo longi, Denisovans & early Homo sapiens, reshaping our view of human origins in Asia. #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Denisovans #Fossils www.anthropology.net/p/a-skull-fr...
A Skull from China Rewrites the Story of Our Genus
How the million-year-old Yunxian cranium connects Homo longi, the Denisovans, and the roots of Homo sapiens
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