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82 Viking Workshop Huts Found Near Aarhus May Have Supplied a Major Trading City

Human Ancestors Were Using Fire Earlier Than Previously Thought. New research is pushing back the clock 700,000 years

The oldest known plague outbreak struck hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago

Iron Age woman likely had her brains scooped out before burial, study suggests

Researchers have discovered dozens of 7,000-year-old headless human skeletons in southwestern Slovakia

Analysis of oxygen isotopes in shells collected by Neanderthals 115,000 years ago indicates that shellfish harvesting occurred year-round but was concentrated in late autumn, winter, and early spring, suggesting seasonal resource planning and risk-management strategies.

Ancient human DNA preservation on cave walls and in rock art

The Last Neanderthals Weren’t the Genetic Disasters We Thought

Yeast has been growing in the guts of frozen mummy called Oetzi the Iceman for thousands of years, scientists have discovered, telling AFP they used it to make a sourdough bread and publishing their findings in Springer Nature's Microbiome journal.

This sticky substance could be a rare example of Neanderthal medicine

a robot is using online more than a human.

Cousins of early humans may have evolved distinct styles of walking upright

A 15th-Century Surgeon’s Tools Still Carried Traces of Anesthetic 600 Years Later

Harvard biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham argues that fire and cooking is what made humans human

One in six internet-using children from a survey in 12 countries across Asia and Africa are found to experience at least one form of technology-facilitated sexual exploitation and abuse…

2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy buried with “Iliad” fragment reveals that literary work played a functional, spiritual role in the mummification process

DNA matches identify four more sailors from the doomed Franklin expedition including one found 80 miles away from his ship

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research

Evolutionary Anthropology: "Burn Selection: How Fire Injury Shaped Human Evolution." A new study argues that over a million years of domestic fire use exposed humans to recurring fire burn injury, driving accelerated genetic evolution in our wound-healing and inflammatory pathways.

Modern European family predates fall of Rome, DNA analysis reveals

New PNAS Analysis (5/4/2026) 1.6 mil year old butchery site in Kenya shows early Homo had primary access to fleshed carcasses and systematically extracted marrow…

Reconstructing the west-east genetic division in Indonesia using ancient genomes

The oldest known evidence of stitched clothing

Humans Have Been Playing With Dice for Longer Than We Thought

Microbiome and skin health: a systematic review of nutraceutical interventions, disease severity, inflammation, and gut microbiota

The human rewilding movement: Iterative application of hunter-gatherer studies at Rewild Portland

Core symptoms of PTSD across four millennia: a phenomenological and nosographic analysis – from ancient Mesopotamian texts to modern psychiatric classifications

Humans have been gambling since the Ice Age

Men have eaten more meat than women for 10,000 years in Europe

Genetic evidence of a population collapse in France 5,000 years ago

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