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Archaeology

Fiber technology at Tabon Cave, 39-33 000 years ago. An artistic view based on the latest archaeological data. Drawing by Carole Cheval-Art'chéograph. Made for the exhibition "Trajectories and Movements of the Philippine Identity" curated by Hermine Xhauflair and Eunice Averion. Scientific advising: Hermine Xhauflair.

Ancient Stone Tools Reveal Prehistoric Plant Technology

Categories Technology
Ham being thinly carved

Oldest Evidence of Cannibalism Identified Among Human Ancestors

Categories Life & Non-humans
Examples of engravings discovered in the Roche-Cotard cave (Indre et Loire - France). On the left, the "circular panel" (ogive-shaped tracings) and on the right the "wavy panel" (two contiguous tracings forming sinuous lines).

France’s La Roche-Cotard Cave Holds Neanderthals’ Oldest Known Engravings

Categories Life & Non-humans
The team excavated through layers of sediments and bones that gradually washed into the cave and were left untouched for tens of thousands of years.

Ancient Human Remains in Laos Cave Hint at Early Migrations

Categories Social Sciences
Trumpington Cross burial facial reconstruction created by forensic artist Hew Morrison using measurements of the woman’s skull and tissue depth data for Caucasian females

Unveiling the Face of an Ancient Migrant

Categories Social Sciences, Technology
Bones

Symphony of the Stone Age: Science Poetry Friday

Categories Bloggers
A composite fossil skeleton of Homo nadedi on display at the Maropeng Museum near Johannesburg, South Africa. PHOTO: JEFF MILLER

Evidence of intentional burial, cave engravings by early human ancestor

Categories Life & Non-humans, Social Sciences
The dimensions of desert dragons only become apparent from the air: at Jebel az-Zilliyat in Saudi Arabia, the true-to-scale engraving depicts nearby desert dragons.

Oldest architectural plans detail mysterious desert mega structures

Categories Social Sciences
The co-authors commissioned an artist to depict their findings about the Xiongnu. Illustration courtesy of Christina Warinner

DNA shows poorly understood empire was multiethnic with strong female leadership

Categories Social Sciences
The bone that researchers found belonged to an ancient individual that the Wrangell Cooperative Association named Tatóok yík yées sháawat (Young lady in cave). Credit: University at Buffalo

Searching for ancient bears in an Alaskan cave led to an important human discovery

Categories Life & Non-humans, Social Sciences
SFU geography professor Nick Hedley. Photo Credit: Simon Fraser University

Ancient Graffiti Revealed in 3D Detail

Categories Social Sciences

Dance and games offer glimpses of life – and death – in ancient Italy

Categories Bloggers
Example of a long-tailed macaque using a stone tool to access food.

Surprising similarities found in stone tools of early humans and monkeys

Categories Life & Non-humans
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