2+ week, 3+ day ago  (493+ words) A reconstructed Bronze Age loom from Cabezo Redondo reveals advanced textile production, including potential early twill weaving, suggesting a shift toward more complex fabrics and wool use. Researchers have analyzed and partially rebuilt a warp-weighted loom from the second millennium…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (724+ words) Researchers decoded Teotihuacan symbols as an early Uto-Aztecan writing system, possibly linked to Nahuatl speakers and reshaping theories about the city's people. More than 2, 000 years ago, Teotihuacan was a major city in central Mexico, home to as many as 125, 000 people....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (721+ words) A 2, 800-year-old mass grave in Serbia reveals a chilling pattern: women and children deliberately targeted, most unrelated to one another, and buried in a ritualized ceremony. New research suggests that women and children were intentionally singled out in one of…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (961+ words) An "emotional and inspiring" archaeological find of Paleolithic tools has revealed a long-lost prehistoric passage that may have enabled movement between Ayval'k and Europe. Continuous stretches of land, now lying beneath the sea, may once have allowed early humans to…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (629+ words) Primates originated in cold environments, not the tropics. Their past adaptations reveal insights for conservation today. Many people picture our earliest primate ancestors moving through dense tropical forests, yet new evidence suggests they actually endured cold environments. As an ecologist…...

6+ mon, 4+ week ago  (556+ words) A groundbreaking study of Latvia's ancient Zvejnieki cemetery has overturned long-held ideas about Stone Age life and death. Researchers have uncovered new details about life and death during the Stone Age, finding that stone tools were not exclusive to men…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (443+ words) Genomic studies show Papua New Guineans are closely related to Asians, shaped by isolation, adaptation, and Denisovan heritage. Papua New Guineans are living proof of how isolation, ancient genetic mixing, and life on remote islands can preserve a distinct chapter…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (823+ words) A newly discovered Denisovan gene, hidden within human DNA, may have helped the first Americans adapt to their new world. Thousands of years ago, early humans braved a dangerous migration, traveling across vast stretches of ice over the Bering Strait…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (831+ words) Fossils uncovered in northeastern Ethiopia, dating to between 2. 6 and 2. 8 million years ago, provide new insights into the course of human evolution. An international team of researchers has uncovered new fossils in Africa showing that Australopithecus and the earliest known members…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (334+ words) Fossils reveal extreme sexual dimorphism in early hominins. The findings reshape views of their social behavior. Ultimately, the high SSD observed in these fossil hominins stands in contrast to the more balanced size patterns of modern humans. It points to…...