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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
Infrared imaging reveals tattoos on ancient Nubian infants and toddlers, reshaping views of childhood, faith, and identity along the medieval Nile. Bodies were marked early, visibly, and with meaning. #Bioarchaeology #Nubia #AncientBodies #Archaeology www.anthropology.net/p/marked-bef...
Marked Before Memory: What Nubian Tattoos on Children Reveal About Faith, Fear, and the Body
Multispectral imaging has exposed a hidden archive of tattoos on ancient Nubian bodies, including infants and toddlers. The findings challenge long-held assumptions about age, belief & bodily identity
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December 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Infrared imaging reveals tattoos on ancient Nubian infants and toddlers, reshaping views of childhood, faith, and identity along the medieval Nile. Bodies were marked early, visibly, and with meaning. #Bioarchaeology #Nubia #AncientBodies #Archaeology www.anthropology.net/p/marked-bef...
Why does the human brain take so long to grow up? Single-cell comparisons with macaques reveal a slower, more plastic prefrontal cortex, linking evolution, culture, and vulnerability. #HumanEvolution #Neuroscience #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/the-long-c...
The Long Childhood of the Human Mind
Why our prefrontal cortex grows at its own pace, and what that reveals about evolution, culture, and vulnerability
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December 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Why does the human brain take so long to grow up? Single-cell comparisons with macaques reveal a slower, more plastic prefrontal cortex, linking evolution, culture, and vulnerability. #HumanEvolution #Neuroscience #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/the-long-c...
A 4,000-year-old sheep genome reveals how Bronze Age plague spread without fleas. Livestock, mobility, and ecology shaped ancient disease networks long before the Black Death rewrote the rules. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #AncientDNA #Plague www.anthropology.net/p/a-plague-w...
A Plague Without Fleas: How a Bronze Age Sheep Rewrites the Prehistory of Disease
A 4,000-year-old animal genome hints that early epidemics traveled along herding routes, not just human footsteps, and forces a rethink of how ancient societies lived with contagion.
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December 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A 4,000-year-old sheep genome reveals how Bronze Age plague spread without fleas. Livestock, mobility, and ecology shaped ancient disease networks long before the Black Death rewrote the rules. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #AncientDNA #Plague www.anthropology.net/p/a-plague-w...
Long before pyramids, Chinchorro communities rebuilt their dead by hand. New research suggests early mummification began as a response to grief, especially infant loss, turning care and art into survival. #Archaeology #Anthropology #MortuaryRitual #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/when-grief...
When Grief Became Craft on the Edge of the Atacama
How Chinchorro mummification turned loss into labor, memory, and care
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December 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Long before pyramids, Chinchorro communities rebuilt their dead by hand. New research suggests early mummification began as a response to grief, especially infant loss, turning care and art into survival. #Archaeology #Anthropology #MortuaryRitual #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/when-grief...
A mosaic patolli board built into a Maya floor at Naachtun challenges ideas about ancient play. Planned, durable, and Early Classic in date, it links games to architecture, labor, and power. #Maya #Archaeology #AncientGames #Mesoamerica www.anthropology.net/p/a-game-set...
A Game Set in Stone and Clay: What a Mosaic Board Reveals About Maya Play and Power
At Naachtun, an Early Classic Maya city, archaeologists uncovered a patolli board unlike any other. Built into the floor itself, it forces a rethink of how games, labor, and architecture intersected.
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December 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
A mosaic patolli board built into a Maya floor at Naachtun challenges ideas about ancient play. Planned, durable, and Early Classic in date, it links games to architecture, labor, and power. #Maya #Archaeology #AncientGames #Mesoamerica www.anthropology.net/p/a-game-set...
Iron Age potters at Dinka fired low, slow, and together. New research reconstructs an entire production system, showing conservative technology, shared knowledge, and underestimated urban organization in the Zagros. #Archaeology #IronAge #Pyrotechnology #Zagros www.anthropology.net/p/fire-clay-...
Fire, Clay, and the Quiet Discipline of Craft at an Iron Age City in the Zagros
How archaeologists reconstructed a complete pottery production system at Dinka, revealing conservative technologies, shared knowledge & a form of urban organization long underestimated in the Iron Age
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December 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Iron Age potters at Dinka fired low, slow, and together. New research reconstructs an entire production system, showing conservative technology, shared knowledge, and underestimated urban organization in the Zagros. #Archaeology #IronAge #Pyrotechnology #Zagros www.anthropology.net/p/fire-clay-...
Tree rings and charred millet rewrite the Bronze Age history of Tabakoni in western Georgia. Precise dates reveal centuries of rebuilding, wetland farming, and persistence in the Colchian lowlands. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Caucasus #Dendrochronology www.anthropology.net/p/timber-tim...
Timber, Time, and the Rise of a Mound: Rethinking Bronze Age Life in Colchis
How waterlogged wood and tree rings rewrote the history of a Black Sea settlement
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December 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Tree rings and charred millet rewrite the Bronze Age history of Tabakoni in western Georgia. Precise dates reveal centuries of rebuilding, wetland farming, and persistence in the Colchian lowlands. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Caucasus #Dendrochronology www.anthropology.net/p/timber-tim...
Ancient teeth from Dmanisi suggest more than one human species left Africa together. Dental data challenge the single-species Homo erectus story and hint at a messier, more diverse first migration. #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology #OutOfAfrica www.anthropology.net/p/two-roads-...
Two Roads Out of Africa: What Teeth From Dmanisi Say About the First Global Humans
A close reading of ancient molars from the Caucasus challenges the idea that a single human species led the earliest migration beyond Africa.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Ancient teeth from Dmanisi suggest more than one human species left Africa together. Dental data challenge the single-species Homo erectus story and hint at a messier, more diverse first migration. #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology #OutOfAfrica www.anthropology.net/p/two-roads-...
Did Neanderthals and modern humans actually meet in Ice Age Iberia? New simulations suggest most of the time they did not. Climate swings and fragile populations kept them apart, with mixing only in rare scenarios. #Paleolithic #Neanderthals #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology #Anthropology
At Europe’s Western Edge, Two Human Worlds Nearly Touched
What computer simulations reveal about Neanderthals, modern humans, and missed encounters in Ice Age Iberia
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December 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Did Neanderthals and modern humans actually meet in Ice Age Iberia? New simulations suggest most of the time they did not. Climate swings and fragile populations kept them apart, with mixing only in rare scenarios. #Paleolithic #Neanderthals #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology #Anthropology
Hands tell a longer story of human growth than textbooks admit. New research shows metacarpal bones keep thickening well into late adolescence, reshaping how anthropologists define maturity. #BioAnth #HumanEvolution #Osteology www.anthropology.net/p/when-bones...
When Bones Keep Growing: What Adolescent Hands Reveal About Human Development
Why the skeleton refuses to follow the neat timelines in our textbooks
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December 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Hands tell a longer story of human growth than textbooks admit. New research shows metacarpal bones keep thickening well into late adolescence, reshaping how anthropologists define maturity. #BioAnth #HumanEvolution #Osteology www.anthropology.net/p/when-bones...
Bones are not passive structures. A new evolutionary study shows how shifts in locomotion, from life on land to bipedalism, reshaped the molecular systems that let bone sense and adapt to load. #HumanEvolution #BioAnthro #Paleo www.anthropology.net/p/when-bones...
When Bones Learned to Listen
How shifts in locomotion rewired the molecular machinery of the vertebrate skeleton
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December 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Bones are not passive structures. A new evolutionary study shows how shifts in locomotion, from life on land to bipedalism, reshaped the molecular systems that let bone sense and adapt to load. #HumanEvolution #BioAnthro #Paleo www.anthropology.net/p/when-bones...
A rural site in northern Iraq suggests Christians and Zoroastrians shared space around AD 500. Architecture, burials, and settlement patterns at Gird-î Kazhaw reveal coexistence grounded in daily life, not texts. #Archaeology #LateAntiquity #NearEast #Religion www.anthropology.net/p/stone-fait...
Stone, Faith, and the Quiet Politics of Living Together
What a rural site in northern Iraq reveals about Christian and Zoroastrian coexistence fifteen centuries ago...
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December 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A rural site in northern Iraq suggests Christians and Zoroastrians shared space around AD 500. Architecture, burials, and settlement patterns at Gird-î Kazhaw reveal coexistence grounded in daily life, not texts. #Archaeology #LateAntiquity #NearEast #Religion www.anthropology.net/p/stone-fait...
Ancient skull circles 💀 meets modern levees 🏗️. How have we held back the tide for millennia—and is the water finally winning? Dive into the haunting history of the Fens and our epic struggle against the sea. 🌊 #Archaeology #Symbolism #Climate www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
How we hold back the tide: levees, drains and a bronze age circle of skulls
Were children’s bones found at the edge of European lake settlements an attempt to appease water gods?
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December 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Ancient skull circles 💀 meets modern levees 🏗️. How have we held back the tide for millennia—and is the water finally winning? Dive into the haunting history of the Fens and our epic struggle against the sea. 🌊 #Archaeology #Symbolism #Climate www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Archaeologists are building playable Stone Age worlds with AI and free game engines. These DIY games let the past speak, adapt, and argue, raising new questions about evidence, ethics, and who controls history. #Archaeology #DigitalHeritage #AI www.anthropology.net/p/when-archa...
When Archaeology Becomes Playable
How low-cost AI and game engines are reshaping the way the deep past is researched, narrated, and argued
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December 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Archaeologists are building playable Stone Age worlds with AI and free game engines. These DIY games let the past speak, adapt, and argue, raising new questions about evidence, ethics, and who controls history. #Archaeology #DigitalHeritage #AI www.anthropology.net/p/when-archa...
Italian centenarians carry slightly more Western Hunter-Gatherer ancestry, linking Ice Age survival genes to modern longevity. The past may still shape how long humans live today. #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Genetics #Longevity www.anthropology.net/p/the-ice-ag...
The Ice Age Gift Hidden in Italian Genomes
Why fragments of ancient hunter-gatherer ancestry may tilt the odds toward a longer human life
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December 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Italian centenarians carry slightly more Western Hunter-Gatherer ancestry, linking Ice Age survival genes to modern longevity. The past may still shape how long humans live today. #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Genetics #Longevity www.anthropology.net/p/the-ice-ag...
Rock art and Songlines once linked Sahul from ocean to desert, carrying law, ritual, and history without writing. New syntheses show how meaning traveled across 2,300 km through movement, memory, and place. #Archaeology #Anthropology #IndigenousKnowledge #HumanEvolution
Lines That Bind a Continent
How rock art, ritual movement, and Songlines stitched Sahul into a shared cultural landscape long before writing
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December 18, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Rock art and Songlines once linked Sahul from ocean to desert, carrying law, ritual, and history without writing. New syntheses show how meaning traveled across 2,300 km through movement, memory, and place. #Archaeology #Anthropology #IndigenousKnowledge #HumanEvolution
A reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old skull from Ethiopia shows a face far more primitive than expected for Homo erectus, revealing a species shaped by overlap, variation, and migration rather than a single evolutionary path. #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology #EarlyHomo #Anthropology
The Face That Refuses to Fit: Rethinking the Rise of Homo erectus
A 1.5-million-year-old skull from Ethiopia blends old and new traits, complicating long-held stories about early human origins and migration.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old skull from Ethiopia shows a face far more primitive than expected for Homo erectus, revealing a species shaped by overlap, variation, and migration rather than a single evolutionary path. #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology #EarlyHomo #Anthropology