Archaeological evidence shows the Magdalenian people from 18,000 years ago likely were engaged in cannibalism. As part of the ...

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New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies. Comments ( 0 ) ( ) ...

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In the 1990s, archaeologists in Poland excavated one of these settlements from 18,000 years ago called Maszycka Cave. Now, ...

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...

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This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

adding a layer of Denisovan ancestry to the genomes of modern humans that is especially prominent in people from Oceania 1. Writing in Nature, Sümer et al. 2 report genomic data for six ancient ...