How Pottery Offers Glimpses Into Ancient Foodways
Archaeologists, armed with new technology and old fragments of food containers, are piecing together what humans in the past cooked and ate.
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The Resistance and Ingenuity of the Cooks Who Lived in Slavery
Archaeologists are investigating foodways and re-creating meals prepared by enslaved people who lived in North America and the Caribbean to better understand their everyday lives and fill gaps in the historical record.
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Is Homo longi an Extinct Human Species?
A newly analyzed skull from northeastern China may signal a species that had closer ties to us than Neanderthals.
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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.