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New research on the Goyet Neanderthals reveals deliberate targeting of small-bodied females and juveniles in a violent case of Late Pleistocene exocannibalism. A haunting glimpse of conflict among the last Neanderthals. #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Neanderthals
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New research on the Goyet Neanderthals reveals deliberate targeting of small-bodied females and juveniles in a violent case of Late Pleistocene exocannibalism. A haunting glimpse of conflict among the last Neanderthals. #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Neanderthals
AI is rewriting the story of Europe’s prehistoric green stone trade. A new model traces variscite artifacts with 95% accuracy, revealing long-distance land routes and reshaping how we understand Neolithic networks. #Archaeology #AI #Prehistory #MaterialsScience www.anthropology.net/p/a-green-li...
A Green Light Through Deep Time
How AI Is Rewriting the Trade Routes of Europe’s Prehistoric Variscite Networks
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November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
AI is rewriting the story of Europe’s prehistoric green stone trade. A new model traces variscite artifacts with 95% accuracy, revealing long-distance land routes and reshaping how we understand Neolithic networks. #Archaeology #AI #Prehistory #MaterialsScience www.anthropology.net/p/a-green-li...
A new biocultural framework argues that language emerged from the interaction of biology and culture, combining vocal learning, pattern formation, and deep social motivation. A mosaic of traits, not a single evolutionary spark. #Linguistics #Anthropology #Evolution #Science
When Minds Meet Cultures: A New Way of Understanding How Language Emerged
A sweeping biocultural framework argues that human language did not arise from a single evolutionary spark but instead formed through layered interactions among bodies, brains, and shared traditions.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
A new biocultural framework argues that language emerged from the interaction of biology and culture, combining vocal learning, pattern formation, and deep social motivation. A mosaic of traits, not a single evolutionary spark. #Linguistics #Anthropology #Evolution #Science
A remote rock shelter in Cape York has preserved 1,700 years of Aboriginal fibrecraft, revealing nets, bags, belts, and everyday technologies rarely seen in the archaeological record. A rare archive of continuity and resilience. #Archaeology #Australia #IndigenousHistory #MaterialCulture
Threads Across Time: The Ancient Craft Hidden in a Queensland Rock Shelter
A rare archaeological discovery in Cape York Peninsula reveals 1,700 years of continuous Aboriginal fibrecraft, preserved in a rock shelter, protected a fragile archive of daily life.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A remote rock shelter in Cape York has preserved 1,700 years of Aboriginal fibrecraft, revealing nets, bags, belts, and everyday technologies rarely seen in the archaeological record. A rare archive of continuity and resilience. #Archaeology #Australia #IndigenousHistory #MaterialCulture
A lavish Iron Age cremation at Horvat Tevet is rewriting what scholars thought about Assyrian power and rural life in the Jezreel Valley. Luxury imports, trade tools, and a mysterious life converge in one extraordinary burial. #Archaeology #IronAge #Levant #Assyria
A Fire in the Valley: What an Iron Age Cremation Reveals About Power, Memory, and Empire
A 2,700-year-old burial at Horvat Tevet reframes the politics of death and the reach of Assyrian rule in the Southern Levant.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A lavish Iron Age cremation at Horvat Tevet is rewriting what scholars thought about Assyrian power and rural life in the Jezreel Valley. Luxury imports, trade tools, and a mysterious life converge in one extraordinary burial. #Archaeology #IronAge #Levant #Assyria
New comparative research suggests kissing evolved in the great apes and likely occurred in Neanderthals. What seems like a cultural habit may be an ancient primate social tool. #Anthropology #Primatology #HumanEvolution #BehavioralScience www.anthropology.net/p/the-ape-ki...
The Ape Kiss: What a New Comparative Study Reveals About the Ancient Roots of Mouth-to-Mouth Affection
A sweeping look at how kissing emerged in large apes, why Homo neanderthalensis probably kissed too, and what primate behavior can teach us about the evolution of intimacy.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
New comparative research suggests kissing evolved in the great apes and likely occurred in Neanderthals. What seems like a cultural habit may be an ancient primate social tool. #Anthropology #Primatology #HumanEvolution #BehavioralScience www.anthropology.net/p/the-ape-ki...
CT scans are transforming archaeometallurgy. New imaging of 5,000-year-old slag from Iran reveals hidden copper droplets, shifting arsenic, and the inner workings of early furnaces. A fresh look at humanity’s first metalworkers. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Metallurgy #Iran
Ghosts in the Furnace: What CT Scans of Ancient Slag Reveal About Humanity’s First Metallurgists
A new imaging approach exposes the hidden textures of a 5,000-year-old copper industry at Tepe Hissar, offering a rare glimpse into the minds and hands of early metalworkers.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
CT scans are transforming archaeometallurgy. New imaging of 5,000-year-old slag from Iran reveals hidden copper droplets, shifting arsenic, and the inner workings of early furnaces. A fresh look at humanity’s first metalworkers. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Metallurgy #Iran
New long-term data from Ngogo chimpanzees show that lethal territorial gains led to major boosts in fertility and infant survival. The findings offer a rare, living model for how spatial competition and resource control may have shaped past hominin societies. #Anthropology #Primates #HumanEvolution
A long-term study of the Ngogo chimpanzees shows that lethal territorial aggression led to a 22 percent range expansion, doubled birth rates, and dramatically improved infant survival. Territorial gains shaped their evolutionary success. #Chimpanzees #Evolution #Primatology #PNAS
The Territory Paradox: How Violence Shapes Life and Death Among Ngogo Chimpanzees
A decades-long study of wild chimpanzees in Uganda reveals that lethal conflict, territorial expansion, and reproductive success are more tightly linked than many scientists once believed.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
New long-term data from Ngogo chimpanzees show that lethal territorial gains led to major boosts in fertility and infant survival. The findings offer a rare, living model for how spatial competition and resource control may have shaped past hominin societies. #Anthropology #Primates #HumanEvolution
A uniquely preserved Neanderthal skull from Italy reveals that their famous noses were not shaped by cold adaptation after all. Altamura’s nasal cavity forces a rethink of how Neanderthals grew, breathed, and evolved. #Neanderthals #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution #PNAS
The Cave That Reshaped a Face: What Altamura Tells Us About Neanderthal Noses
A remarkably preserved fossil from southern Italy is forcing researchers to rethink long-standing ideas about how Homo neanderthalensis breathed, grew, and endured Ice Age Europe.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
A uniquely preserved Neanderthal skull from Italy reveals that their famous noses were not shaped by cold adaptation after all. Altamura’s nasal cavity forces a rethink of how Neanderthals grew, breathed, and evolved. #Neanderthals #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution #PNAS
Archaeologists investigating Semiyarka in Kazakhstan reveal a vast Bronze Age center reshaping how urban life and metallurgy on the steppe are understood. A planned city rises from a landscape once thought too mobile for permanence. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Eurasia #Metallurgy
City of the Seven Ravines: Rethinking Urban Life on the Bronze Age Steppe
New research at Semiyarka is challenging long-held ideas about mobility, metallurgy, and the unexpected shape of early cities in Eurasia.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Archaeologists investigating Semiyarka in Kazakhstan reveal a vast Bronze Age center reshaping how urban life and metallurgy on the steppe are understood. A planned city rises from a landscape once thought too mobile for permanence. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Eurasia #Metallurgy
New synthesis of 1,200+ fossils from the Omo–Turkana Basin reveals uneven timelines, shifting habitats, and a richer early Homo record than expected. A landmark recalibration of a key region in human evolution. #Paleoanthropology #HumanOrigins #Archaeology #Hominins
Shifting Landscapes, Shifting Lineages: What a Half-Century of Fossils from the Omo–Turkana Basin Is Telling Us Now
A new synthesis of more than 1,200 fossils reframes one of paleoanthropology’s most important regions, revealing uneven histories of discovery, shifting ecological windows, and a surprisingly complex.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
New synthesis of 1,200+ fossils from the Omo–Turkana Basin reveals uneven timelines, shifting habitats, and a richer early Homo record than expected. A landmark recalibration of a key region in human evolution. #Paleoanthropology #HumanOrigins #Archaeology #Hominins
New research using a global dataset of 1,700 languages reveals that about one-third of proposed grammatical universals hold up under evolutionary testing. A fresh look at the deep patterns shaping human communication. #Linguistics #Anthropology #Evolution #LanguageScience
Patterns Beneath the Noise: What a Massive Global Dataset Is Teaching Us About the Deep Structure of Human Grammar
New computational work suggests that some of the world’s most persistent grammatical patterns are not accidents of history but stable outcomes of how humans make meaning.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
New research using a global dataset of 1,700 languages reveals that about one-third of proposed grammatical universals hold up under evolutionary testing. A fresh look at the deep patterns shaping human communication. #Linguistics #Anthropology #Evolution #LanguageScience
A tiny 12,000-year-old clay figurine from Nahal Ein Gev II captures a rare human-animal encounter. This Natufian sculpture marks a turning point in symbolic expression just before the Neolithic. #Archaeology #Natufian #HumanOrigins #Prehistory www.anthropology.net/p/clay-shado...
Clay, Shadows, and the First Stories We Told: A 12,000-Year-Old Woman and Her Goose
A tiny figurine from the Late Natufian period reshapes our understanding of creativity, ritual, and the symbolic imagination on the cusp of the Neolithic.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
A tiny 12,000-year-old clay figurine from Nahal Ein Gev II captures a rare human-animal encounter. This Natufian sculpture marks a turning point in symbolic expression just before the Neolithic. #Archaeology #Natufian #HumanOrigins #Prehistory www.anthropology.net/p/clay-shado...
Ancient dog genomes reveal that humans carried their own dogs across eastern Eurasia for at least 11,000 years. Dogs mirrored human migrations, from Arctic foragers to Bronze Age metalworkers, forming a shared history of movement. #Archaeology #Genomics #Dogs #HumanEvolution
Tracing Footsteps in Tandem: How Dogs and Humans Moved Across Eastern Eurasia Together
Ancient genomes from dogs and the people who lived beside them reveal a deep, millennia-long partnership that shaped the cultural and demographic landscapes of eastern Eurasia.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Ancient dog genomes reveal that humans carried their own dogs across eastern Eurasia for at least 11,000 years. Dogs mirrored human migrations, from Arctic foragers to Bronze Age metalworkers, forming a shared history of movement. #Archaeology #Genomics #Dogs #HumanEvolution
A 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn has been reconstructed with AI, revealing a vivid portrait of the city’s beauty, women priests, and civic ideals once copied by schoolchildren. A forgotten voice rises again. #Assyriology #AncientHistory #Archaeology #AI www.anthropology.net/p/a-city-rea...
A City Reassembled from Dust: How a Lost Babylonian Hymn Found Its Voice Again
An ancient song praising Babylon’s beauty, diversity, and spiritual life has resurfaced after 3,000 years, thanks to an ambitious collaboration between Assyriologists and AI researchers.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn has been reconstructed with AI, revealing a vivid portrait of the city’s beauty, women priests, and civic ideals once copied by schoolchildren. A forgotten voice rises again. #Assyriology #AncientHistory #Archaeology #AI www.anthropology.net/p/a-city-rea...
New research shows early dogs were astonishingly diverse long before modern breeds. By 11,000 years ago, dogs already displayed half the variation seen today, reshaping our understanding of domestication and human–canine history. #Archaeology #Dogs #HumanEvolution #Zooarchaeology
Shapes Of An Ancient Bond: How Dogs Became Dogs Long Before Breeders Took Over
Early canines carried astonishing variety long before the Victorian era. A new global study reveals the deep prehistory of dog diversity and the long, tangled partnership between humans and dogs
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November 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
New research shows early dogs were astonishingly diverse long before modern breeds. By 11,000 years ago, dogs already displayed half the variation seen today, reshaping our understanding of domestication and human–canine history. #Archaeology #Dogs #HumanEvolution #Zooarchaeology
New modeling suggests Neanderthals may have faded into Homo sapiens through slow genetic blending, not extinction. A quiet merge, not a catastrophic end. #HumanEvolution #Neanderthal #Archaeology #Genetics www.anthropology.net/p/the-slow-v...
The Slow Vanishing: How Small Waves of Homo sapiens May Have Quietly Absorbed the Neanderthals
A new mathematical model suggests the end of the Neanderthals was less an extinction than a genetic merging—a slow fade through interbreeding rather than a cataclysmic fall.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
New modeling suggests Neanderthals may have faded into Homo sapiens through slow genetic blending, not extinction. A quiet merge, not a catastrophic end. #HumanEvolution #Neanderthal #Archaeology #Genetics www.anthropology.net/p/the-slow-v...
As ancient DNA reshapes prehistory, it also forces science to confront its ethics. Who consents for the long dead, and how should communities guide genetic research? #AncientDNA #Bioethics #Archaeology #IndigenousRights www.anthropology.net/p/who-speaks...
Who Speaks for the Dead?
The Global Reckoning Over Consent and Power in Ancient DNA Research
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November 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
As ancient DNA reshapes prehistory, it also forces science to confront its ethics. Who consents for the long dead, and how should communities guide genetic research? #AncientDNA #Bioethics #Archaeology #IndigenousRights www.anthropology.net/p/who-speaks...
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...