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Ancient DNA still molds the modern face. A new study reveals that Neanderthal genetic variants amplify a jaw-shaping gene, hinting that traces of their robust anatomy remain written in us. #Neanderthals #Evolution #Genetics #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/faces-from...
Faces from the Past: How Neanderthal DNA Still Shapes the Human Jaw
A new study uncovers how traces of Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes continue to influence the genes that sculpt our faces, offering a rare glimpse into the deep genetic past of human anatomy.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Ancient DNA still molds the modern face. A new study reveals that Neanderthal genetic variants amplify a jaw-shaping gene, hinting that traces of their robust anatomy remain written in us. #Neanderthals #Evolution #Genetics #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/faces-from...
New research on El Argar pottery reveals a 4,000-year-old production network that linked specialized workshops and centralized elites across Bronze Age Iberia. Clay became an instrument of statecraft. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #ElArgar #Iberia www.anthropology.net/p/the-empire...
The Empire of Clay: How 4,000-Year-Old Pottery Exposed the Power Structure of El Argar
A new geochemical investigation reveals El Argar pottery was not the handiwork of local households but the product of a coordinated, regional network that hints at one of Europe’s earliest economies.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
New research on El Argar pottery reveals a 4,000-year-old production network that linked specialized workshops and centralized elites across Bronze Age Iberia. Clay became an instrument of statecraft. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #ElArgar #Iberia www.anthropology.net/p/the-empire...
Ancient Peru’s “Band of Holes” may have been an Indigenous accounting system—an open-air ledger where the Chincha and Inca tracked goods, tribute, and exchange. #Archaeology #Andes #Inca #Anthropology @antiquity.ac.uk www.anthropology.net/p/the-band-o...
The Band of Holes and the Math of Empire
How a 1.5-kilometer chain of pits in Peru may reveal an Indigenous system of accounting older than the Inca
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November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Ancient Peru’s “Band of Holes” may have been an Indigenous accounting system—an open-air ledger where the Chincha and Inca tracked goods, tribute, and exchange. #Archaeology #Andes #Inca #Anthropology @antiquity.ac.uk www.anthropology.net/p/the-band-o...
Ancient DNA from Argentina reveals a previously unknown lineage that has endured for over 8,500 years, reshaping what we know about the peopling of South America. #Archaeogenetics #Argentina #HumanOrigins #AncientDNA www.anthropology.net/p/the-lost-l...
The Lost Lineage of the Pampas: How Ancient DNA Rewrites 8,500 Years of Argentinian Prehistory
A vast new genetic study reveals a long-hidden population that endured droughts, migrations, and empire without ever disappearing.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Ancient DNA from Argentina reveals a previously unknown lineage that has endured for over 8,500 years, reshaping what we know about the peopling of South America. #Archaeogenetics #Argentina #HumanOrigins #AncientDNA www.anthropology.net/p/the-lost-l...
Ancient fish bones from Micronesia reveal that Pacific islanders mastered open-ocean fishing 1,800 years ago—thanks to collagen “fingerprints” that expose their shark and tuna catches. #archaeology #PacificIslands #ZooMS #marinehistory www.anthropology.net/p/the-sharks...
The Sharks Beneath the Shell Middens: How Collagen Fingerprints Are Rewriting Pacific Fishing History
A new biomolecular technique is giving archaeologists an unprecedented window into the seafaring skills and ecological ingenuity of Micronesia’s ancient fishers.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Ancient fish bones from Micronesia reveal that Pacific islanders mastered open-ocean fishing 1,800 years ago—thanks to collagen “fingerprints” that expose their shark and tuna catches. #archaeology #PacificIslands #ZooMS #marinehistory www.anthropology.net/p/the-sharks...
Indigenous navigators conquered vast oceans, but none sailed below 50°S before Europeans. A new study reveals why: the Southern Ocean’s deadly logic made restraint the wisest form of mastery. #Archaeology #MaritimeHistory #Anthropology #Polynesia www.anthropology.net/p/the-edge-o...
The Edge of the Known Sea: Why Indigenous Voyagers Stopped at 50° South
New research reevaluates humanity’s southernmost limits, exploring why Indigenous seafarers never crossed into the perilous waters below the 50th parallel—and what that decision reveals about adaptati
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November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Indigenous navigators conquered vast oceans, but none sailed below 50°S before Europeans. A new study reveals why: the Southern Ocean’s deadly logic made restraint the wisest form of mastery. #Archaeology #MaritimeHistory #Anthropology #Polynesia www.anthropology.net/p/the-edge-o...
A new study argues that rats, not just people, drove Easter Island’s deforestation. A few stowaways exploded into millions, gnawing through the island’s future—one palm seed at a time. #Archaeology #IslandEcology #RapaNui #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/rats-palms...
Rats, Palms, and the Fall of a Forest: Rethinking Rapa Nui’s “Ecocide”
A new study suggests Easter Island’s deforestation was not just a human story but a rodent one—where a few stowaways changed the course of an island’s ecology.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A new study argues that rats, not just people, drove Easter Island’s deforestation. A few stowaways exploded into millions, gnawing through the island’s future—one palm seed at a time. #Archaeology #IslandEcology #RapaNui #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/rats-palms...
Archaeologists uncover 1,000 years of wetland engineering in Bolivia’s Amazon. Ancient societies thrived by designing landscapes that flowed with, not against, nature. #Archaeology #Amazon #IndigenousKnowledge #Sustainability www.anthropology.net/p/landscapes...
Landscapes That Remember: How Ancient Amazonian Societies Engineered Resilience in a Sea of Wetlands
New archaeological evidence from Bolivia’s tectonic lakes reveals how Indigenous societies flourished for over a millennium by designing landscapes that worked with, not against, nature.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Archaeologists uncover 1,000 years of wetland engineering in Bolivia’s Amazon. Ancient societies thrived by designing landscapes that flowed with, not against, nature. #Archaeology #Amazon #IndigenousKnowledge #Sustainability www.anthropology.net/p/landscapes...
Aguada Fénix, a 3,000-year-old site in Mexico, reshapes our understanding of early Maya society—monumental architecture without kings, built as a cosmic map of the universe. #Archaeology #Maya #HumanOrigins #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/the-people...
The People Who Drew the Sky: How a 3,000-Year-Old Maya Site Redefined Power, Ritual, and the Cosmos
Aguada Fénix rewrites what we thought we knew about the origins of monumental architecture—and who built it.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Aguada Fénix, a 3,000-year-old site in Mexico, reshapes our understanding of early Maya society—monumental architecture without kings, built as a cosmic map of the universe. #Archaeology #Maya #HumanOrigins #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/the-people...
A new study reveals that ignoring broken oyster shells in archaeological sites can distort ancient population estimates, reshaping baselines for fisheries and coastal stewardship. Fragments matter. #archaeology #coastalenvironments #oysters #conservationscience www.anthropology.net/p/the-broken...
The Broken Shell Problem
Archaeologists rethink ancient oyster middens and discover that absence can distort the ecological past
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November 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A new study reveals that ignoring broken oyster shells in archaeological sites can distort ancient population estimates, reshaping baselines for fisheries and coastal stewardship. Fragments matter. #archaeology #coastalenvironments #oysters #conservationscience www.anthropology.net/p/the-broken...
New evidence from Kenya shows early Oldowan stone tools remained stable for nearly 300,000 years despite intense climate shifts. Early hominins relied on craft and continuity long before rapid innovation arrived. #archaeology #Oldowan #paleoanthropology #TurkanaBasin #anthropology
The Tools That Outlasted a World in Flux
A 2.75-million-year-old stone tool record from Kenya reshapes our sense of innovation, resilience, and early human adaptability
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November 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
New evidence from Kenya shows early Oldowan stone tools remained stable for nearly 300,000 years despite intense climate shifts. Early hominins relied on craft and continuity long before rapid innovation arrived. #archaeology #Oldowan #paleoanthropology #TurkanaBasin #anthropology
A 200,000-year-old Denisovan genome reveals multiple ancient Denisovan populations, unexpected Neanderthal contacts, and hints of a mysterious hominin lineage. Human evolution looks more tangled than ever. #paleoanthropology #ancientDNA #humanorigins #Denisovans www.anthropology.net/p/ghost-line...
Ghost Lineages in the DNA
A 200,000-year-old Denisovan genome hints at vanished populations and tangled hominin histories
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November 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A 200,000-year-old Denisovan genome reveals multiple ancient Denisovan populations, unexpected Neanderthal contacts, and hints of a mysterious hominin lineage. Human evolution looks more tangled than ever. #paleoanthropology #ancientDNA #humanorigins #Denisovans www.anthropology.net/p/ghost-line...
Chimpanzees and bonobos shape friendships in layered circles, much like humans. A new cross-species analysis of grooming networks suggests ancient roots for social selectivity, egalitarianism, and coalition-building in Pan.
#primates #anthropology #socialevolution #Pan
#primates #anthropology #socialevolution #Pan
Scientists discover that chimpanzees and bonobos build layered social circles much like humans. The study hints at deep evolutionary roots for friendship, selectivity, and time-limited social bonds. #primatology #evolution #socialbehavior #anthropology www.primatology.net/p/circles-in...
Circles in the Forest
What great apes and humans share about friendship, hierarchy, and the limits of social time
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October 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Chimpanzees and bonobos shape friendships in layered circles, much like humans. A new cross-species analysis of grooming networks suggests ancient roots for social selectivity, egalitarianism, and coalition-building in Pan.
#primates #anthropology #socialevolution #Pan
#primates #anthropology #socialevolution #Pan
Chimpanzees can weigh evidence and update beliefs when new information arrives. Their flexible reasoning echoes early cognitive foundations shared with humans, offering rare insight into the evolution of rationality.
#cognition #primatebehavior #evolutionaryanthropology #Science
#cognition #primatebehavior #evolutionaryanthropology #Science
Chimpanzees in Uganda show a capacity to weigh evidence and revise decisions, hinting at ancient roots of rational thought shared with humans. Science edges closer to Darwin’s idea of cognitive continuity. #primatology #cognition #evolution www.primatology.net/p/minds-in-t...
Minds in the Forest
How chimpanzees weighing evidence might push us to rethink the roots of reason
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October 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Chimpanzees can weigh evidence and update beliefs when new information arrives. Their flexible reasoning echoes early cognitive foundations shared with humans, offering rare insight into the evolution of rationality.
#cognition #primatebehavior #evolutionaryanthropology #Science
#cognition #primatebehavior #evolutionaryanthropology #Science
Archaeologists in Benin City are uncovering the buried royal heart of a once-mighty West African empire beneath a modern museum site — rewriting Africa’s urban history. #Archaeology #BeninCity #CulturalHeritage #HumanHistory @antiquity.ac.uk www.anthropology.net/p/beneath-be...
Beneath Benin: Rediscovering a City of Kings and Craftsmen
A new wave of archaeology in Nigeria’s Benin City is rewriting what we know about one of Africa’s greatest pre-colonial capitals — and about how modern cities can coexist with their buried pasts.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Archaeologists in Benin City are uncovering the buried royal heart of a once-mighty West African empire beneath a modern museum site — rewriting Africa’s urban history. #Archaeology #BeninCity #CulturalHeritage #HumanHistory @antiquity.ac.uk www.anthropology.net/p/beneath-be...
Did humanity’s cultural spark ignite on South Africa’s southern coast? New evidence points to tidal foragers, ochre artists, and early innovators who may have carried our species along ancient shorelines. #paleoanthropology #humanorigins #archaeology #evolution www.anthropology.net/p/salt-stone...
Salt, Stone, and the Spark of Us
Why a windswept African shoreline might have nurtured the earliest truly modern humans
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October 31, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Did humanity’s cultural spark ignite on South Africa’s southern coast? New evidence points to tidal foragers, ochre artists, and early innovators who may have carried our species along ancient shorelines. #paleoanthropology #humanorigins #archaeology #evolution www.anthropology.net/p/salt-stone...
New research on wild chimpanzees shows juvenile innovation is not play but a cultural engine. Young chimps invent tools, refine adult techniques, and introduce novelty. What if childhood experimentation drove early human cultural evolution too? #Primatology #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanOrigins
Young chimpanzees invent tools, modify adult techniques, and explore in ways that spark cultural change. New research suggests childhood curiosity may have fueled innovation long before Homo sapiens shaped history. #Anthropology #Primates #Evolution #Science www.primatology.net/p/the-little...
The Little Inventors of the Forest
Young chimpanzees build tools, break rules, and may hold clues to how culture first evolved
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October 31, 2025 at 2:44 AM
New research on wild chimpanzees shows juvenile innovation is not play but a cultural engine. Young chimps invent tools, refine adult techniques, and introduce novelty. What if childhood experimentation drove early human cultural evolution too? #Primatology #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanOrigins
A 70,000-year-old ochre “crayon” from Crimea reveals Neanderthals shaped pigments for symbolic marking, challenging assumptions about their minds and culture. These pigments hint at ritual, identity, and shared symbolic roots. #Paleolithic #Neanderthals #Anthropology #Evolution
Crayons of the Pleistocene
What a 70,000-year-old ochre crayon from Crimea tells us about Neanderthal minds
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October 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
A 70,000-year-old ochre “crayon” from Crimea reveals Neanderthals shaped pigments for symbolic marking, challenging assumptions about their minds and culture. These pigments hint at ritual, identity, and shared symbolic roots. #Paleolithic #Neanderthals #Anthropology #Evolution
Ancient DNA reveals how the Sarmatians—steppe warriors who once challenged Rome—migrated, mixed, and quietly became part of Europe’s genetic legacy. Their story is one of disappearance through survival. #Archaeogenetics #HumanEvolution #AncientDNA #Sarmatians www.anthropology.net/p/the-vanish...
The Vanished Riders of the Steppe: What Ancient DNA Reveals About Europe’s “Forgotten People”
How the Sarmatians — once feared horsemen on the Roman frontier — became genetic ghosts in the heart of Europe.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Ancient DNA reveals how the Sarmatians—steppe warriors who once challenged Rome—migrated, mixed, and quietly became part of Europe’s genetic legacy. Their story is one of disappearance through survival. #Archaeogenetics #HumanEvolution #AncientDNA #Sarmatians www.anthropology.net/p/the-vanish...
Over 4,000 years, China’s tombs have shifted with empires, migrations, and climate. A new spatial study maps how geography and power shaped where the living chose to rest. #Archaeology #ChinaHistory #CulturalHeritage #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/the-geogra...
The Geography of the Afterlife: How 4,000 Years of Chinese Tombs Tell a Story of Power, Migration, and Memory
New spatial analysis reveals how geography, politics, and prosperity shaped the rise and fall of tomb-building across China's dynasties.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Over 4,000 years, China’s tombs have shifted with empires, migrations, and climate. A new spatial study maps how geography and power shaped where the living chose to rest. #Archaeology #ChinaHistory #CulturalHeritage #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/the-geogra...
AI-trained models show that Homo habilis, once seen as the first human hunter, was likely preyed upon by leopards. The study reshapes how we view early human ecology and vulnerability. #Paleoanthropology #AI #HumanEvolution #OlduvaiGorge www.anthropology.net/p/the-leopar...
The Leopard’s Shadow: When Early Humans Were Still on the Menu
How artificial intelligence reshaped our understanding of Homo habilis’ place in the predator-prey hierarchy
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October 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
AI-trained models show that Homo habilis, once seen as the first human hunter, was likely preyed upon by leopards. The study reshapes how we view early human ecology and vulnerability. #Paleoanthropology #AI #HumanEvolution #OlduvaiGorge www.anthropology.net/p/the-leopar...
Humans and their animals now outweigh all wild mammals tenfold and move 40 times more mass across the planet. New studies quantify our dominance not in ideas, but in tons. #Anthropocene #Ecology #Conservation #Biodiversity www.anthropology.net/p/the-weight...
The Weight of the World: How Humanity Rewrote the Balance of Mammalian Life
Two new studies reveal that humans and their animals now outweigh, outmove, and outconsume the rest of the planet’s mammals combined.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Humans and their animals now outweigh all wild mammals tenfold and move 40 times more mass across the planet. New studies quantify our dominance not in ideas, but in tons. #Anthropocene #Ecology #Conservation #Biodiversity www.anthropology.net/p/the-weight...
New research suggests Poverty Point’s massive mounds were not royal monuments but sacred gatherings—acts of ritual cooperation to restore balance in a chaotic world. #Archaeology #Anthropology #PovertyPoint #IndigenousHistory www.anthropology.net/p/the-mounds...
The Mounds That Mended the Sky: Rethinking the Meaning of Poverty Point
New archaeological research suggests that North America’s earliest monumental builders were not subjects of kings or chiefs, but pilgrims who moved mountains of earth to repair a broken world.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
New research suggests Poverty Point’s massive mounds were not royal monuments but sacred gatherings—acts of ritual cooperation to restore balance in a chaotic world. #Archaeology #Anthropology #PovertyPoint #IndigenousHistory www.anthropology.net/p/the-mounds...
Did hunger for fat—not genius—drive human evolution? A new hypothesis links megafaunal collapse, the rise of art and arrows, and the birth of dogs. Evolution, it seems, began at dinner. #HumanOrigins #Anthropology #Paleolithic #Dogs www.anthropology.net/p/the-feast-...
The Feast Before the Famine: How Losing the Megafauna Made Us Human
New research argues that the extinction of giant Ice Age animals reshaped human biology, culture, and even our oldest friendship—with the dog.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Did hunger for fat—not genius—drive human evolution? A new hypothesis links megafaunal collapse, the rise of art and arrows, and the birth of dogs. Evolution, it seems, began at dinner. #HumanOrigins #Anthropology #Paleolithic #Dogs www.anthropology.net/p/the-feast-...
A 45,000-year-old Crimean bone reveals Neanderthals weren’t homebound cavemen but long-distance travelers linked to Siberia through genes and tools. #Neanderthals #Archaeology #HumanOrigins #AncientDNA www.anthropology.net/p/the-wander...
The Wanderers of the Steppe: How a Crimean Bone Rewrote the Map of Neanderthal Migrations
A 45,000-year-old fossil from Crimea hints at Neanderthal networks stretching thousands of kilometers across Ice Age Eurasia
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October 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
A 45,000-year-old Crimean bone reveals Neanderthals weren’t homebound cavemen but long-distance travelers linked to Siberia through genes and tools. #Neanderthals #Archaeology #HumanOrigins #AncientDNA www.anthropology.net/p/the-wander...