2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (949+ words) The Core Concept: Researchers have discovered evidence that early human foragers on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi habitually consumed betel nuts for their psychoactive properties up to 25,000 years ago. Origin/History: The practice dates to the Late Pleistocene period, with…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (816+ words) Researchers have identified four additional sailors from Sir John Franklin's ill-fated 1845 Arctic expedition, including one man whose identity had remained the subject of debate for more than a century. Anthropologists from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (324+ words) UOW researcher's dating work helps to establish the timeline behind one of the longest record of Denisovan occupation An ancient cave in southwestern China has revealed new evidence about how Denisovans — an ancient human relative — lived, survived and adapted over…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (378+ words) UOW researcher’s dating work helps to establish the timeline behind one of the longest records of Denisovan occupation An ancient cave in southwestern China has revealed new evidence about how Denisovans — an ancient human relative — lived, survived and adapted over…...

5+ day, 20+ min ago   (215+ words) Together, they recovered more than 1,500 archaeological and paleontological remains this season alone — stone tools and animal bones that are reshaping what’s known about how Neanderthal groups lived on Spain’s northern plateau roughly 46,000 years ago, deep in the Late Pleistocene. For…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (230+ words) The project was run by rock art expert George Nash together with Genevieve von Petzinger and Barbara Oosterwijk, and the precise locations of the caves are kept secret to secure them against any possible vandalism. Cathole Cave on the Gower…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (357+ words) Ancient Irish cave art may reveal a lost Ice Age route from Wales....

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (727+ words) Prehistoric art hidden in caves throughout southwestern Ireland for thousands of years could push back the timeline on the earliest human presence on the Emerald Isle by as much as 5,000 years, archaeologists say. The remarkable discoveries may reveal a previously…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (697+ words) A woman buried face-down in Henan province, her nose bones cleanly cut and healed, offers the first skeletal evidence of a punishment China's legal codes described for over a thousand years. Chinese legal texts have described nasal amputation as a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1520+ words) Hidden within the limestone cliffs of the Gower Peninsula in South Wales is a cave that has witnessed dramatic changes in climate, landscape, and human history. Bacon Hole, overlooking what is today the Bristol Channel, is home to one of…...