4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (513+ words) A 25,000-year record from Cloggs Cave in southeastern Australia shows how the GunaiKurnai people’s Old Ancestors used plants during ritual activities. Researchers studied tiny plant remains called phytoliths to trace how grasses were brought into the cave, burned, and placed…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (416+ words) The finds came from rescue excavations before the construction of a hotel in the northern part of historic Vladimir. The excavation covered about 400 square meters and revealed cultural layers from the second half of the 12th century to the early 13th century....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (458+ words) A medieval cemetery in Lithuania is changing what historians know about the early history of Vilnius. A new isotope study found that some of the city’s earliest Christians came from hundreds of kilometers away, showing that Europe’s last pagan state…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (497+ words) Children buried beside adults in medieval graves have long been seen as family members. A new DNA study from Stockholm University tells a different story. The findings show that people buried together were rarely close biological relatives, even in places…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (571+ words) Neanderthals and modern humans appear to have shared far more than the same landscape. A new study from a cave in southern Türkiye suggests both groups lived in strikingly similar ways and even shared symbolic traditions over thousands of years....

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (392+ words) A fresh study is changing the story of Homo floresiensis, the extinct human relative known as the “hobbit.” Scientists now think these small hominins did not hunt dwarf elephants or use fire as often as once believed. Instead, they likely…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (349+ words) A new ancient DNA study suggests political power among Iron Age Scythian elites stayed within the same families for generations. The findings offer a new view of how social rank and leadership grew across the ancient Eurasian steppe. The study,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (316+ words) For decades, archaeologists have linked Clovis stone points found beside mammoth, mastodon, and gomphothere bones with large game hunting. Those finds helped shape the idea that Clovis people hunted these giant animals and played a major part in their extinction…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (474+ words) A new ancient DNA study suggests medieval Sicily remained a diverse population center for hundreds of years, despite major political and religious changes. Researchers analyzed DNA from 111 people buried at 19 archaeological sites across Sicily. The remains date from the fifth…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (616+ words) Ancient human DNA has been found on cave walls for the first time, giving scientists a new way to study people who lived thousands of years ago. The finding shows human genetic material can survive on rock surfaces long after…...