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New dating evidence pushes ‘Ubeidiya in the Jordan Valley back to at least 1.9 million years old — roughly the same age as Dmanisi. Were two different hominin groups leaving Africa at the same time? #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology #Acheulean www.anthropology.net/p/ubeidiya-i...
'Ubeidiya Is at Least 1.9 Million Years Old, and That Changes the Picture of Early Human Dispersal
New dating evidence from the Jordan Valley pushes one of the oldest known out-of-Africa sites back by hundreds of thousands of years
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February 19, 2026 at 6:06 PM
New dating evidence pushes ‘Ubeidiya in the Jordan Valley back to at least 1.9 million years old — roughly the same age as Dmanisi. Were two different hominin groups leaving Africa at the same time? #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology #Acheulean www.anthropology.net/p/ubeidiya-i...
New cosmogenic dating puts the Yunxian Homo erectus skulls at 1.77 million years old, making them the oldest securely contextualized hominin fossils in eastern Asia. The dispersal picture just got more complicated. #Paleoanthropology #HomoErectus #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/the-yunxia...
The Yunxian Skulls Are 1.77 Million Years Old. That Changes Things.
New cosmogenic burial dating of a Chinese fossil site pushes the arrival of Homo erectus in eastern Asia back by more than half a million years.
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February 19, 2026 at 1:58 PM
New cosmogenic dating puts the Yunxian Homo erectus skulls at 1.77 million years old, making them the oldest securely contextualized hominin fossils in eastern Asia. The dispersal picture just got more complicated. #Paleoanthropology #HomoErectus #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/the-yunxia...
Archaeologists just found the grandparents’ room in a 2,700-year-old Israelite house. A cedar chair, a rare footbath, & a ground floor bedroom (the ladder to the 2nd floor being the giveaway). #Archaeology #IronAge #AncientIsrael www.anthropology.net/p/the-grandp...
The Grandparents' Room: Finding the Elderly in an Iron Age House
What a destroyed building in the Shephelah tells us about old age, authority, and domestic life in ancient Israel
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February 18, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Archaeologists just found the grandparents’ room in a 2,700-year-old Israelite house. A cedar chair, a rare footbath, & a ground floor bedroom (the ladder to the 2nd floor being the giveaway). #Archaeology #IronAge #AncientIsrael www.anthropology.net/p/the-grandp...
Ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old hunter-gatherer cemetery on Gotland shows people buried together were kin, but often second- or third-degree relatives, not parents and children. The Stone Age family was wider than we assumed. #AncientDNA #Archaeogenetics #HunterGatherers
Who Gets Buried Together on a Stone Age Island
Ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old cemetery on Gotland reveals that hunter-gatherers tracked kinship well beyond the nuclear family.
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February 18, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old hunter-gatherer cemetery on Gotland shows people buried together were kin, but often second- or third-degree relatives, not parents and children. The Stone Age family was wider than we assumed. #AncientDNA #Archaeogenetics #HunterGatherers
New ancient DNA from Jomon shell mounds in Chiba Prefecture challenges the long-standing two-migration theory. One founding population, genetic drift, and 10,000 years — enough to look like two. #Jomon #AncientDNA #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/one-people...
One People, Two Bloodlines: What Ancient DNA Tells Us About the Jomon's Origins
New mitogenome sequences from Jomon skeletons are rewriting the story of who first settled Japan — and how a single founding population fractured into two genetically distinct halves.
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February 18, 2026 at 5:37 PM
New ancient DNA from Jomon shell mounds in Chiba Prefecture challenges the long-standing two-migration theory. One founding population, genetic drift, and 10,000 years — enough to look like two. #Jomon #AncientDNA #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/one-people...
Bonobo sexual behavior as a window into the deep evolution of rhythm and synchrony. New data on facial mimicry and movement tempo raises hard questions about what's uniquely human and what's far, far older. #Paleoanthropology #Primatology #HumanEvolution
New study on bonobo sex finds that facial mimicry doesn’t speed up movement tempo, but tempo drops sharply right after it stops. What does that tell us about the evolutionary roots of rhythm and communication? #HumanEvolution #Primatology #CognitiveScience www.primatology.net/p/what-bonob...
What Bonobo Sex Tells Us About the Origins of Rhythm and Communication
A new study on facial mimicry and movement tempo in bonobos opens a window into the deep evolutionary roots of human social behavior.
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February 17, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Bonobo sexual behavior as a window into the deep evolution of rhythm and synchrony. New data on facial mimicry and movement tempo raises hard questions about what's uniquely human and what's far, far older. #Paleoanthropology #Primatology #HumanEvolution
Two Neolithic communities, 4km apart, genetically related — and radically different ideas about how gender should be marked in life and death. New bioarchaeology from Hungary is genuinely strange. #Bioarchaeology #Neolithic #Osteology www.anthropology.net/p/what-two-n...
What Two Neolithic Cemeteries in Hungary Tell Us About How Gender Gets Made
Bones and burials from the same microregion, 500 years apart, tell a surprisingly complicated story
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February 17, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Two Neolithic communities, 4km apart, genetically related — and radically different ideas about how gender should be marked in life and death. New bioarchaeology from Hungary is genuinely strange. #Bioarchaeology #Neolithic #Osteology www.anthropology.net/p/what-two-n...
New ancient DNA reveals 3,000 years of genetic stability in Europe’s Low Countries—then this forager refuge became the source of Britain’s Bronze Age transformation. #AncientDNA #Archaeology #BellBeaker www.anthropology.net/p/the-forage...
The Foragers Who Shaped Bell Beaker Europe
How a genetic refuge in the Low Countries became the source of Britain’s Bronze Age transformation
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February 16, 2026 at 7:46 PM
New ancient DNA reveals 3,000 years of genetic stability in Europe’s Low Countries—then this forager refuge became the source of Britain’s Bronze Age transformation. #AncientDNA #Archaeology #BellBeaker www.anthropology.net/p/the-forage...
New study reveals Chalcolithic cornets were likely beeswax lamps made by ritual participants themselves, challenging standard models of ancient ceramic production. #Archaeology #Chalcolithic #RitualObject www.anthropology.net/p/when-every...
When Everyone Brought Their Own Light: Chalcolithic Cornets and the Problem of Ritual Production
Archaeologists working with ancient ceramics from Jordan have identified a pattern that doesn’t fit standard models of either domestic pottery or ritual objects.V
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February 15, 2026 at 9:01 PM
New study reveals Chalcolithic cornets were likely beeswax lamps made by ritual participants themselves, challenging standard models of ancient ceramic production. #Archaeology #Chalcolithic #RitualObject www.anthropology.net/p/when-every...
Northern Britain’s oldest burial is an 11,000-year-old girl. Her cave was used for 7,000 years by people who weren’t related to each other. #archaeology #prehistory #Mesolithic www.anthropology.net/p/the-cave-t...
The Cave That Kept Calling Them Back
For 7,000 years, people in northern Britain buried their dead in the same limestone fissure. They weren't the same people.
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February 14, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Northern Britain’s oldest burial is an 11,000-year-old girl. Her cave was used for 7,000 years by people who weren’t related to each other. #archaeology #prehistory #Mesolithic www.anthropology.net/p/the-cave-t...
New isotopic analysis suggests seabird guano wasn’t just fertilizer in pre-Inca Peru—it was a foundation of political power, fueling agricultural surplus and the rise of the Chincha Kingdom. #Archaeology #AncientPeru #EnvironmentalHistory #PreInca www.anthropology.net/p/bird-dropp...
Bird Droppings and Political Power: How Guano Shaped a Pre-Inca Kingdom
When isotopes tell a story about fertilizer and empire in coastal Peru
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February 13, 2026 at 11:13 PM
New isotopic analysis suggests seabird guano wasn’t just fertilizer in pre-Inca Peru—it was a foundation of political power, fueling agricultural surplus and the rise of the Chincha Kingdom. #Archaeology #AncientPeru #EnvironmentalHistory #PreInca www.anthropology.net/p/bird-dropp...
2,000 years ago in Vietnam, people deliberately blackened their teeth using iron and tannins. New chemical analysis reveals the Iron Age origins of a practice that lasted millennia. #Archaeology #Culture #Ritual #Vietnam www.anthropology.net/p/when-black...
When Black Teeth Marked a Kingdom: Iron Age Vietnam and the Chemistry of Identity
Chemical analysis of 2,000-year-old teeth from northern Vietnam reveals the earliest evidence of deliberate tooth blackening, a practice linking ancient communities to centuries of cultural tradition.
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February 13, 2026 at 2:23 PM
2,000 years ago in Vietnam, people deliberately blackened their teeth using iron and tannins. New chemical analysis reveals the Iron Age origins of a practice that lasted millennia. #Archaeology #Culture #Ritual #Vietnam www.anthropology.net/p/when-black...
New climate models show wild wheat and barley were less widespread 12,000 years ago than today—and got scarcer as the climate warmed. #Archaeology #NeolithicRevolution #PlantDomestication #Archaeobotany www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-c...
When the Climate Got Better, the Plants Disappeared
Machine learning reveals that the ancestors of wheat and barley were less common after the Ice Age ended, not more.
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February 13, 2026 at 5:25 AM
New climate models show wild wheat and barley were less widespread 12,000 years ago than today—and got scarcer as the climate warmed. #Archaeology #NeolithicRevolution #PlantDomestication #Archaeobotany www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-c...
New study reveals hunter-gatherers in Europe’s lowlands held out 3,000 years longer than anywhere else, then their descendants replaced 90% of Britain’s population. #AncientDNA #HumanEvolution #Archaeology www.anthropology.net/p/the-wetlan...
The Wetland Exception: How Hunter-Gatherers Held Out in Europe's Heartland
New ancient DNA evidence reveals a 3,000-year delay in the farming revolution across the lowlands of the Netherlands and Belgium, driven by an ecology that let old ways persist.
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February 12, 2026 at 2:15 AM
New study reveals hunter-gatherers in Europe’s lowlands held out 3,000 years longer than anywhere else, then their descendants replaced 90% of Britain’s population. #AncientDNA #HumanEvolution #Archaeology www.anthropology.net/p/the-wetlan...
Only humans have chins, and new research suggests it’s an evolutionary accident. Analysis of 500+ ape skulls shows the chin evolved as a byproduct of other changes in the skull, not as an adaptation. #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #EvolutionaryBiology www.anthropology.net/p/the-chin-i...
The Chin Is an Accident: What 500 Ape Skulls Tell Us About Human Uniqueness
New evidence suggests our most distinctive facial feature evolved as an evolutionary side effect, not an adaptation.
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February 12, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Only humans have chins, and new research suggests it’s an evolutionary accident. Analysis of 500+ ape skulls shows the chin evolved as a byproduct of other changes in the skull, not as an adaptation. #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #EvolutionaryBiology www.anthropology.net/p/the-chin-i...
Why did bison hunters abandon a Montana kill site after 700 years? Not prey scarcity—severe droughts converged with shifts toward large-scale communal hunting, making small sites obsolete. #archaeology #climateadaptation #bison #zooarchaeology #anthropology #montana
The Site That Stopped Working: Bison Hunting and Drought in Late Holocene Montana
When hunters abandoned a kill site after 700 years of use, the answer wasn't scarcity
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February 10, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Why did bison hunters abandon a Montana kill site after 700 years? Not prey scarcity—severe droughts converged with shifts toward large-scale communal hunting, making small sites obsolete. #archaeology #climateadaptation #bison #zooarchaeology #anthropology #montana
Tent rings on remote Greenland islands reveal Early Paleo-Inuit made 50km ocean crossings 4,500 years ago—the longest journey from this period in the Arctic. #Archaeology #Arctic #PaleoInuit @antiquity.ac.uk www.anthropology.net/p/the-crossing
The Crossing
How 4,500-year-old tent rings in Greenland's High Arctic reveal the sophistication of Early Paleo-Inuit seafaring and their role in shaping Arctic ecosystems
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February 9, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Tent rings on remote Greenland islands reveal Early Paleo-Inuit made 50km ocean crossings 4,500 years ago—the longest journey from this period in the Arctic. #Archaeology #Arctic #PaleoInuit @antiquity.ac.uk www.anthropology.net/p/the-crossing
A 5,300-year-old drill sat misidentified in a museum for 100 years. New analysis reveals it’s the oldest rotary tool from ancient Egypt, rewriting the timeline of Egyptian engineering. #Archaeology #AncientEgypt #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/a-tiny-cop...
A Tiny Copper Drill Sat in a Museum Drawer for a Century. It Just Rewrote Egyptian Tool History
How a 63-millimeter object from a Predynastic grave changed what we know about early Egyptian engineering
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February 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A 5,300-year-old drill sat misidentified in a museum for 100 years. New analysis reveals it’s the oldest rotary tool from ancient Egypt, rewriting the timeline of Egyptian engineering. #Archaeology #AncientEgypt #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/a-tiny-cop...
New evidence of “severed heads” among Iberian peoples expands the geographic range of an Iron Age ritual beyond the Llobregat River. Skull analysis reveals violence, defleshing, and treatment with pine resin. #IronAge #Bioarchaeology #IberianPeninsula www.anthropology.net/p/severed-he...
Severed Heads at the Southern Border
New skull fragments push the boundaries of an Iron Age ritual in Iberia
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February 8, 2026 at 8:58 PM
New evidence of “severed heads” among Iberian peoples expands the geographic range of an Iron Age ritual beyond the Llobregat River. Skull analysis reveals violence, defleshing, and treatment with pine resin. #IronAge #Bioarchaeology #IberianPeninsula www.anthropology.net/p/severed-he...
New 3D mapping reveals which Paleolithic engravings on Spanish portable art are real and which are just stone. Some “heads” disappeared. New details emerged. #Paleolithic #Archaeology #RockArt www.anthropology.net/p/the-proble...
The Problem With Paleolithic Art That's Less Than a Millimeter Deep
A new digital method reveals what's really carved on Late Paleolithic stone tools, and what's just rock.
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February 8, 2026 at 3:01 PM
New 3D mapping reveals which Paleolithic engravings on Spanish portable art are real and which are just stone. Some “heads” disappeared. New details emerged. #Paleolithic #Archaeology #RockArt www.anthropology.net/p/the-proble...
New isotope analysis reveals that victims in 4,300-year-old French mass graves were outsiders subjected to ritualized violence, suggesting Europe’s earliest victory celebrations were carefully staged. #Neolithic #archaeology #prehistory www.anthropology.net/p/the-left-a...
The Left Arms in the Pit
What isotopes reveal about some of Europe's earliest victory rituals
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February 8, 2026 at 2:52 PM
New isotope analysis reveals that victims in 4,300-year-old French mass graves were outsiders subjected to ritualized violence, suggesting Europe’s earliest victory celebrations were carefully staged. #Neolithic #archaeology #prehistory www.anthropology.net/p/the-left-a...
The oldest sewn hide ever found came from an Oregon cave. It’s elk, stitched with plant-and-hair cordage, and it dates to 12,000 years ago when winter survival depended on fitted clothing. #Archaeology #Pleistocene #GreatBasin www.anthropology.net/p/the-oldest...
The Oldest Sewn Hide in the World Came from an Oregon Cave
When you can't survive winter without complex clothing, everything about how you live changes.
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February 8, 2026 at 2:26 AM
The oldest sewn hide ever found came from an Oregon cave. It’s elk, stitched with plant-and-hair cordage, and it dates to 12,000 years ago when winter survival depended on fitted clothing. #Archaeology #Pleistocene #GreatBasin www.anthropology.net/p/the-oldest...
New excavations at Eilsleben, Germany reveal complex interactions between Europe’s first farmers and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. A ritual deer mask links two worlds. #Neolithic #Archaeology #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/the-deer-m...
The Deer Mask at the Edge of the Farming World
What a 7,000-year-old ritual object tells us about life on the boundary between two ways of being human
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February 8, 2026 at 2:19 AM
New excavations at Eilsleben, Germany reveal complex interactions between Europe’s first farmers and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. A ritual deer mask links two worlds. #Neolithic #Archaeology #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/the-deer-m...
New study finds cave burials in Nevada’s Lahontan Basin weren’t unique—similar practices were widespread across the Great Basin for over 10,000 years. #Archaeology #GreatBasin #Burials www.anthropology.net/p/the-unique...
The Uniqueness Problem: Cave Burials in the Great Basin
A new study challenges the idea that one region's burial practices were exceptional—and finds that claims of uniqueness often collapse under closer scrutiny.
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February 7, 2026 at 4:53 PM
New study finds cave burials in Nevada’s Lahontan Basin weren’t unique—similar practices were widespread across the Great Basin for over 10,000 years. #Archaeology #GreatBasin #Burials www.anthropology.net/p/the-unique...
New study finds that when AI imagines Neanderthals, it produces images from the 1980s and text from the 1960s. The gap between generative models and current scholarship is wider than you’d think. #Neanderthals #AI #Archaeology www.anthropology.net/p/when-ai-im...
When AI Imagines Neanderthals, It Dreams of the 1960s
A computational analysis reveals that generative AI produces representations of our extinct relatives that are decades out of date—and systematically biased.
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February 6, 2026 at 10:42 PM
New study finds that when AI imagines Neanderthals, it produces images from the 1980s and text from the 1960s. The gap between generative models and current scholarship is wider than you’d think. #Neanderthals #AI #Archaeology www.anthropology.net/p/when-ai-im...
