Tiny Snails Help Solve a Giant Mystery
Archaeologists may finally know the age and true identity of the “Rude Man,” also known as the Cerne Abbas Giant, one of dozens of geoglyphs etched into the British countryside.
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Women at the Hearth and on the Hunt
New archaeological findings about hunting challenge entrenched beliefs about gender roles in ancient hunter-gatherer societies.
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Will Asia Rewrite Human History?
Politics, geography, and tradition have long focused archaeological attention on the evolution of Homo sapiens in Europe and Africa. Now, new research is challenging old ideas by showing that early human migrations unfolded across Asia far earlier than previously known.
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The Knotty Question of When Humans Made the Americas Home
A deluge of new findings are challenging long-held scientific narratives of how humans came to North and South America.
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Are Trophy Skulls Evidence of Civil War Among the Classic Maya?
Macabre artifacts hint at regional conflicts around the time of the Maya civilization’s disintegration.
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Could Mammoth Bones Reveal When Humans First Arrived in North America?
Paleontologist Dan Fisher is challenging scientific consensus about when people first came to the continent and how they may have changed the world around them.