Climate Change May Have Been a Major Driver of Ancient Hominin Extinctions
A new study suggests at least two close relatives of Homo sapiens may have died out as their environments changed.
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Ancient Humans Used Fire to Make Stone Tools
A new study, borrowing techniques from artificial intelligence research, suggests hominins in the eastern Mediterranean used heat from fire in manufacturing flint blades. -
A Mammoth Find Near Mexico City
Scientists have identified the largest ever assemblage of mammoth bones.
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Archaeologists Respond to the Black Lives Matter Movement
A recent panel discussion encouraged scholars from across the U.S. to consider the experiences and contributions of Black people in this discipline.
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Were Women the True Artisans Behind Ancient Greek Ceramics?
A new paper makes the case that scholars have ignored the role of female ceramicists in Greece going back some 3,000 years—and that this failing could speak to a more consequential blind spot involving gender.
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What Really Happened at Herculaneum?
A new study offers insight into the lives lost when Italy’s Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79.