Home → Science → Anthropology It's all about the dried meat and seeds. Over 10,000 years ago, humans in Borneo feasted on dried meats and palm plants, new research suggests. While researchers have a fairly good idea about the diet of Late Pleistocene…
Made up of Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Egypt and Algeria, north Africa is a melting pot of cultures with two predominant human populations with their own language and culture: the Arabs and the Imazighen. Part of their history has been buried…
Want more Life's Little Mysteries? It turns out laziness existed long before couches and takeout. The "why bother?" attitude not only existed hundreds of thousands of years ago, but may also have led to the decline of an ancient human…
For the first time in almost a century, archaeologists at Breitenbach in eastern Germany have opened dense piles of mammoth bone lying alongside flint tools, tusk fragments and worked ivory. The camp belongs to the Aurignacian, the culture of an…
Ancient DNA has revealed that people living across Europe more than 30,000 years ago were connected over far greater distances than researchers previously understood. An international team led by the University of Vienna found genetic evidence of exchanges between eastern and…
Two siblings buried 725 km apart offer an intriguing clue in an ancient DNA investigation spanning centuries of Roman rule, political upheaval, and migration across Iberia. Study: Contrasting demographic impacts of Roman colonization and early medieval migrations in the Iberian Peninsula…
Archaeologists in England have uncovered new remains at one of the country's oldest and largest medieval leprosy hospitals, revealing clues about how patients may have lived centuries ago. Ancient hospital ruins yield clues to life with feared medieval disease Archaeologists…
People who lived in Europe more than 30,000 years ago were more connected than scientists believed. A team led by the University of Vienna found new genetic evidence of contact between eastern and western groups of the Gravettian culture. The study…
Dario is one of the staff writers at Archaeology News online magazine. He joined the magazine in January 2022. Dario covers news and articles in archaeology, anthropology, paleontology & more Eland protein found in 60,000-year-old ochre layer offers clues to early human…
For years, nothing in this cave could say who had been there. Then a few old bones went under the microscope, and the marks they carry began to tell a story no one had read yet. Six bone fragments from…
Hominid fossils, tool cultures, migrations, and ancient DNA insights.
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