Following a New Trail of Crumbs to Agriculture’s Origins
Archaeologists have found tiny pieces of ancient bread from hunter-gatherers that predate agriculture by about 4,000 years.
Following a New Trail of Crumbs to Agriculture’s Origins
Paleolithic
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A Radical New Theory About the Origins of Art
Archaeologists are tapping cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology research to figure out how our ancestors began making figurative art.
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In the Land of the Mammoth Eaters
One archaeological site in Texas has yielded an astonishing amount of evidence that people have been in North America for over 15,000 years.
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Why This Paleolithic Burial Site Is So Strange (and So Important)
An ancient interment site in Russia challenges us to rethink how Paleolithic humans in Europe treated their dead and organized their societies.
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Solving a Riddle About the Dawn of Art
New tools, partnerships, and investigations into a regional “hole in the map” are helping to fill in the picture of Paleolithic art in Spain's Basque Country.
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Anthropology’s Top Findings of 2017
For the field that studies everything human, the past year has been one of great upheaval and radical revelations.