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hominin extinctions - New research suggests some of our species’ closest relatives died out because of significant changes in climate, findings that may offer a warning for humanity today.

Climate Change May Have Been a Major Driver of Ancient Hominin Extinctions

Researchers found these ancient flint blades in Israel’s Qesem Cave.

Ancient Humans Used Fire to Make Stone Tools

Mexico City mammoth find - Archaeologists, restorers, and laborers have worked together to uncover thousands of late Pleistocene animal remains.

A Mammoth Find Near Mexico City

A group of people wearing gloves crouch down and dig in the dirt, while another person stands close by observing.

Archaeologists Respond to the Black Lives Matter Movement

A piece of tan pottery shows a black abstract drawing that appears to be a horse and a woman.

Were Women the True Artisans Behind Ancient Greek Ceramics?

The Booker T. Washington High School parade processes along Greenwood Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Unearthing the True Toll of the Tulsa Race Massacre

Herculaneum - The volcanic Mount Vesuvius is visible above the ruins of Pompeii, now an archaeological site in Italy.

What Really Happened at Herculaneum?

south africa repatriation - A man stands on the farm in Sutherland, South Africa, where a medical student once unethically exhumed nine bodies for scientific study.

Restoring Dignity to Stolen Ancestors

Dispersal - Researchers excavate in Jordan’s Zarqa Valley.

Should the Story of Homo’s Dispersal Out of Africa Be Rewritten?

Researchers tested the cutting potential of knife-shaped frozen human feces.

Case Closed: You Can’t Make a Knife Out of Frozen Poop

Starches

Scientists Find First Evidence of Humans Cooking Starches

Athletic Sudden Death

Genetic Factors May Help Explain Athletic Sudden Death

The Sacrificial Puppies of the Shang Dynasty

New Hominin Shakes the Family Tree—Again

brain evolution

Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains

Three researchers stand in Denisova Cave in Russia, home to the newly classified Denisovan skull fragments.

First Confirmed Denisovan Skull Piece Found