Archaeology

Archaeology

Honeybees sweetened early farmers’ lives

Residue on pottery pegs ancient farmers as devotees of honeybee products.

Anthropology

Ancient hominids used wooden spears to fend off big cats

Saber-toothed cat remains suggest ancient hominids used wooden spears as defensive weapons.

Anthropology

Bronze Age mummies identified in Britain

Bone analysis finds widespread mummy making in ancient England and Scotland.

Archaeology

‘Superhenge’ once lined Stonehenge neighborhood

A row of massive, now-buried stones once bordered a site near Stonehenge.

Anthropology

Ancient pottery maps route to South Pacific

New Guinea pottery points to a key meeting of island natives and seafarers at least 3,000 years ago.

Anthropology

Chilean desert cemetery tells tale of ancient trade specialists

Burial site holds clues to ancient trade brokers in Chilean desert.

Anthropology

Bones revive a 7,000-year-old massacre

Bones suggest Central Europe’s first farmers had an extremely violent streak.

Anthropology

Remains of Jamestown leaders discovered

Colonial-era graves reveal leading figures in founding of English America.

Anthropology

Modern-day trackers reinterpret Stone Age cave footprints

African trackers help researchers interpret ancient human footprints in French caves.

Archaeology

Bronze Age humans racked up travel miles

A new study indicates long journeys and unexpected genetic links in Bronze Age Eurasian cultures.

Humans

How Homo sapiens became world’s dominant species

'First Peoples' dispels old ideas about human evolution and tells an updated tale of how Homo sapiens came to dominate the world.

Archaeology

Earliest known stone tools unearthed in Kenya

East African discoveries suggest stone-tool making started at least 3.3 million years ago.