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New genomic research shows domestic cats arrived in Europe only 2,000 years ago, carried from North Africa during an era of trade and empire. Europe’s earlier cats were wild, not ancestral to today’s pets. #Archaeology #Genomics #HumanEvolution #Cats www.anthropology.net/p/when-cats-...
When Cats Crossed Continents: The Late Arrival of Felis catus in Europe
New genomic research overturns long-standing assumptions about the origins, movements, and cultural roles of the world’s most familiar pet.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
New genomic research shows domestic cats arrived in Europe only 2,000 years ago, carried from North Africa during an era of trade and empire. Europe’s earlier cats were wild, not ancestral to today’s pets. #Archaeology #Genomics #HumanEvolution #Cats www.anthropology.net/p/when-cats-...
A cache of 60 stone tulas buried in outback Queensland reveals sophisticated planning, trade, and resilience among Aboriginal communities, offering a vivid glimpse into life disrupted during early colonial expansion. #Archaeology #Australia #IndigenousHistory #Anthropology
Bones Beneath the Coolabah: What a Buried Cache of Stone Tools Reveals About Intelligence, Trade, and Survival in the Australian Outback
A long-hidden stash of tulas challenges assumptions about planning, exchange networks, and adaptation among Aboriginal communities in one of the world’s harshest environments.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
A cache of 60 stone tulas buried in outback Queensland reveals sophisticated planning, trade, and resilience among Aboriginal communities, offering a vivid glimpse into life disrupted during early colonial expansion. #Archaeology #Australia #IndigenousHistory #Anthropology
Ancient DNA from Shimao reveals a patrilineal megasettlement built on local ancestry, distant contacts, and gendered ritual sacrifice. A rare glimpse into hierarchy before China’s earliest states. #Archaeology #AncientDNA #Anthropology #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/the-city-o...
The City of Skulls and Fathers: Ancient DNA Reshapes the Story of Shimao’s Neolithic World
How a mega-settlement on the Loess Plateau stitched together ancestry, hierarchy, and ritual violence in the centuries before China’s earliest states
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November 29, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Ancient DNA from Shimao reveals a patrilineal megasettlement built on local ancestry, distant contacts, and gendered ritual sacrifice. A rare glimpse into hierarchy before China’s earliest states. #Archaeology #AncientDNA #Anthropology #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/the-city-o...
New radiocarbon dates from Mezhyrich suggest mammoth-bone houses were short-term Ice Age shelters, not permanent settlements. A fresh look at human ingenuity during the coldest millennia. #Archaeology #Paleolithic #HumanOrigins #IceAge www.anthropology.net/p/shelters-o...
Shelters of Bone: Rethinking Ice Age Ingenuity at Mezhyrich
A revised radiocarbon analysis reframes one of Europe’s most iconic Paleolithic sites and the lives of the mammoth hunters who passed through it.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:40 AM
New radiocarbon dates from Mezhyrich suggest mammoth-bone houses were short-term Ice Age shelters, not permanent settlements. A fresh look at human ingenuity during the coldest millennia. #Archaeology #Paleolithic #HumanOrigins #IceAge www.anthropology.net/p/shelters-o...
New radiocarbon dates reveal the Pecos River murals formed a 4000-year tradition, linking Archaic foragers to later Mesoamerican worldviews. A rare case of cultural endurance written on canyon walls. #Archaeology #RockArt #Anthropology #Mesoamerica www.anthropology.net/p/canyons-of...
Canyons of Memory: How a Four-Millennia Painting Tradition Rewrote the Deep History of North American Thought
New radiocarbon work on the Pecos River murals reveals an artistic and philosophical lineage that outlasted empires, climate swings, and entire ways of life.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
New radiocarbon dates reveal the Pecos River murals formed a 4000-year tradition, linking Archaic foragers to later Mesoamerican worldviews. A rare case of cultural endurance written on canyon walls. #Archaeology #RockArt #Anthropology #Mesoamerica www.anthropology.net/p/canyons-of...
Ancient Andean scales reveal a world where measurement blended with morality, reciprocity, and sacred landscapes. New research shows how wipis and khipus shaped social balance across the precolonial Andes. #Anthropology #Archaeology #Andes #History www.anthropology.net/p/weighing-t...
Weighing the Living World: How Ancient Andean Scales Measured More Than Goods
New research reframes balance scales and khipus as tools for shaping ethical, economic, and cosmological order across the precolonial Andes.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Ancient Andean scales reveal a world where measurement blended with morality, reciprocity, and sacred landscapes. New research shows how wipis and khipus shaped social balance across the precolonial Andes. #Anthropology #Archaeology #Andes #History www.anthropology.net/p/weighing-t...
A sweeping new 3D model of Rapa Nui’s quarry reveals how moai carving once unfolded across independent workshops, offering fresh insight into community life and cultural identity on one of the world’s most remote islands. #Archaeology #RapaNui #Moai #EasterIsland www.anthropology.net/p/carved-in-...
Carved in Stone, Shared in Pixels: A New Window into Rapa Nui’s Moai Makers
A sweeping digital reconstruction of Rano Raraku reshapes how researchers understand the island’s iconic statue workshops and the communities that carved them.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
A sweeping new 3D model of Rapa Nui’s quarry reveals how moai carving once unfolded across independent workshops, offering fresh insight into community life and cultural identity on one of the world’s most remote islands. #Archaeology #RapaNui #Moai #EasterIsland www.anthropology.net/p/carved-in-...
Ancient Chinchorro mummies show that modern Chileans are taller and have larger cranial volumes because of recent improvements in nutrition and health, not ancient lifestyle shifts. Bodies change fast when environments do. #bioarchaeology #anthropology #Chile #humanvariation
Shaped by Time: What Ancient Mummies Reveal About Modern Chilean Bodies
How thousands of years of environmental pressure and a century of public health shaped the human form
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November 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Ancient Chinchorro mummies show that modern Chileans are taller and have larger cranial volumes because of recent improvements in nutrition and health, not ancient lifestyle shifts. Bodies change fast when environments do. #bioarchaeology #anthropology #Chile #humanvariation
New fossils from Ethiopia reveal that Australopithecus deyiremeda lived beside Lucy’s species while walking, climbing, and eating in different ways. Early hominin evolution was a branching landscape, not a single path. #Paleoanthropology #HumanOrigins #Fossils #Evolution
The Foot That Didn’t Fit: What a Strange Fossil Reveals About Our Earliest Neighbors
New fossils from the Ethiopian highlands reshape the picture of how multiple hominin species shared landscapes, diets, and ways of moving 3.4 million years ago.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
New fossils from Ethiopia reveal that Australopithecus deyiremeda lived beside Lucy’s species while walking, climbing, and eating in different ways. Early hominin evolution was a branching landscape, not a single path. #Paleoanthropology #HumanOrigins #Fossils #Evolution
New sediment evidence from Laguna Itzan shows the Classic Maya collapse was not driven by drought everywhere. A stable climate could not save a society woven into failing regional networks. #Archaeology #MayaStudies #Anthropology #ClimateHistory www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-r...
When the Rains Never Failed: Rethinking Collapse in the Maya Southwest
New sediment records from Guatemala complicate the long-held drought narrative and reveal a more tangled story of land use, interdependence, and resilience.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
New sediment evidence from Laguna Itzan shows the Classic Maya collapse was not driven by drought everywhere. A stable climate could not save a society woven into failing regional networks. #Archaeology #MayaStudies #Anthropology #ClimateHistory www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-r...
New research suggests early states grew not from surplus alone but from the tax potential of cereal grains. Writing followed as a tool for keeping track. A fresh phylogenetic view on why grain shaped political evolution. #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #StateFormation
Fields That Built Nations: How the Humble Cereal Plant Reshaped Human Politics
New phylogenetic research suggests that early states did not rise on the promise of surplus alone but on the precise tax potential of grain, along with the bureaucratic tools invented to keep track of
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November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
New research suggests early states grew not from surplus alone but from the tax potential of cereal grains. Writing followed as a tool for keeping track. A fresh phylogenetic view on why grain shaped political evolution. #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #StateFormation
New research challenges decades-old assumptions about language, showing it is not a fixed human code but a multimodal, socially driven, culturally evolving system shaped across species and technologies. #Linguistics #CognitiveScience #LanguageEvolution #Anthropology
Threads of Thought: How Modern Science Is Rewriting the Blueprint of Human Language
A new wave of research argues that language is not a static code sealed in the human brain, but a dynamic, multimodal, culturally evolving system shaped by interaction across species and communities
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November 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
New research challenges decades-old assumptions about language, showing it is not a fixed human code but a multimodal, socially driven, culturally evolving system shaped across species and technologies. #Linguistics #CognitiveScience #LanguageEvolution #Anthropology
New genomic research reveals that China’s ancient Hanging Coffin communities share deep ancestry with today’s Bo people and coastal Neolithic populations. A long-standing cultural tradition proves far more enduring than historical records suggest. #Genomics #Archaeology #EastAsia #HumanHistory
Echoes in the Cliffs
New genomic research traces the cultural and biological legacy of China’s Hanging Coffin communities and reveals their ties to the modern Bo people.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
New genomic research reveals that China’s ancient Hanging Coffin communities share deep ancestry with today’s Bo people and coastal Neolithic populations. A long-standing cultural tradition proves far more enduring than historical records suggest. #Genomics #Archaeology #EastAsia #HumanHistory
Wild orangutan diets are mastered via cultural learning. Modeling confirms social absence halts full dietary acquisition, indicating cumulative culture's deep evolutionary roots in great apes. #Hominidae #CulturalEvolution #PrimateStudies
New research shows wild orangutans rely on cultural learning to master hundreds of foods. Without social guidance, simulated apes fail to develop full diets, revealing ancient roots of cultural accumulation. #Primatology #Culture #Evolution #Anthropology www.primatology.net/p/the-appren...
The Apprenticeship of the Forest
New research shows that young orangutans inherit a cultural archive of edible plants and animals far too extensive for any individual to discover alone.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Wild orangutan diets are mastered via cultural learning. Modeling confirms social absence halts full dietary acquisition, indicating cumulative culture's deep evolutionary roots in great apes. #Hominidae #CulturalEvolution #PrimateStudies
Ancient wolves found on a remote Baltic island show signs of human provisioning, injury care, and isolation. Their presence hints at overlooked forms of wolf management long before true domestication. #Archaeology #Paleogenomics #Wolves #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/the-wolves...
The Wolves Who Crossed the Water
How two ancient canids marooned on a Baltic island reveal a forgotten chapter in the long, uneasy relationship between humans and wolves.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Ancient wolves found on a remote Baltic island show signs of human provisioning, injury care, and isolation. Their presence hints at overlooked forms of wolf management long before true domestication. #Archaeology #Paleogenomics #Wolves #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/the-wolves...
New genomic research shows that most modern dogs carry small traces of ancient wolf ancestry that influenced size, behavior, and adaptation. Even chihuahuas are a little wolf. A deeper look at how dogs evolved with humans. #Archaeogenetics #Dogs #Wolves #Evolution
The Wolves Within
Why the faint genetic traces of ancient wolves lingering in modern dogs may matter more than anyone expected.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
New genomic research shows that most modern dogs carry small traces of ancient wolf ancestry that influenced size, behavior, and adaptation. Even chihuahuas are a little wolf. A deeper look at how dogs evolved with humans. #Archaeogenetics #Dogs #Wolves #Evolution
A mosaic patolli board embedded in a Classic Maya floor at Naachtun reveals deliberate design, elite gaming, and a rare architectural innovation. This fifth-century board reshapes how archaeologists understand Mesoamerican play. #Maya #Archaeology #Games #Anthropology
The Game Set Into Stone
A mosaic patolli board buried in a Classic Maya household floor forces archaeologists to rethink how games were built, used, and valued.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:07 AM
A mosaic patolli board embedded in a Classic Maya floor at Naachtun reveals deliberate design, elite gaming, and a rare architectural innovation. This fifth-century board reshapes how archaeologists understand Mesoamerican play. #Maya #Archaeology #Games #Anthropology
New research on the Goyet Neanderthals reveals deliberate targeting of small-bodied females and juveniles in a violent case of Late Pleistocene exocannibalism. A haunting glimpse of conflict among the last Neanderthals. #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Neanderthals
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New research on the Goyet Neanderthals reveals deliberate targeting of small-bodied females and juveniles in a violent case of Late Pleistocene exocannibalism. A haunting glimpse of conflict among the last Neanderthals. #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Neanderthals
AI is rewriting the story of Europe’s prehistoric green stone trade. A new model traces variscite artifacts with 95% accuracy, revealing long-distance land routes and reshaping how we understand Neolithic networks. #Archaeology #AI #Prehistory #MaterialsScience www.anthropology.net/p/a-green-li...
A Green Light Through Deep Time
How AI Is Rewriting the Trade Routes of Europe’s Prehistoric Variscite Networks
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November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
AI is rewriting the story of Europe’s prehistoric green stone trade. A new model traces variscite artifacts with 95% accuracy, revealing long-distance land routes and reshaping how we understand Neolithic networks. #Archaeology #AI #Prehistory #MaterialsScience www.anthropology.net/p/a-green-li...
A new biocultural framework argues that language emerged from the interaction of biology and culture, combining vocal learning, pattern formation, and deep social motivation. A mosaic of traits, not a single evolutionary spark. #Linguistics #Anthropology #Evolution #Science
When Minds Meet Cultures: A New Way of Understanding How Language Emerged
A sweeping biocultural framework argues that human language did not arise from a single evolutionary spark but instead formed through layered interactions among bodies, brains, and shared traditions.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
A new biocultural framework argues that language emerged from the interaction of biology and culture, combining vocal learning, pattern formation, and deep social motivation. A mosaic of traits, not a single evolutionary spark. #Linguistics #Anthropology #Evolution #Science
A remote rock shelter in Cape York has preserved 1,700 years of Aboriginal fibrecraft, revealing nets, bags, belts, and everyday technologies rarely seen in the archaeological record. A rare archive of continuity and resilience. #Archaeology #Australia #IndigenousHistory #MaterialCulture
Threads Across Time: The Ancient Craft Hidden in a Queensland Rock Shelter
A rare archaeological discovery in Cape York Peninsula reveals 1,700 years of continuous Aboriginal fibrecraft, preserved in a rock shelter, protected a fragile archive of daily life.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A remote rock shelter in Cape York has preserved 1,700 years of Aboriginal fibrecraft, revealing nets, bags, belts, and everyday technologies rarely seen in the archaeological record. A rare archive of continuity and resilience. #Archaeology #Australia #IndigenousHistory #MaterialCulture
A lavish Iron Age cremation at Horvat Tevet is rewriting what scholars thought about Assyrian power and rural life in the Jezreel Valley. Luxury imports, trade tools, and a mysterious life converge in one extraordinary burial. #Archaeology #IronAge #Levant #Assyria
A Fire in the Valley: What an Iron Age Cremation Reveals About Power, Memory, and Empire
A 2,700-year-old burial at Horvat Tevet reframes the politics of death and the reach of Assyrian rule in the Southern Levant.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A lavish Iron Age cremation at Horvat Tevet is rewriting what scholars thought about Assyrian power and rural life in the Jezreel Valley. Luxury imports, trade tools, and a mysterious life converge in one extraordinary burial. #Archaeology #IronAge #Levant #Assyria
New comparative research suggests kissing evolved in the great apes and likely occurred in Neanderthals. What seems like a cultural habit may be an ancient primate social tool. #Anthropology #Primatology #HumanEvolution #BehavioralScience www.anthropology.net/p/the-ape-ki...
The Ape Kiss: What a New Comparative Study Reveals About the Ancient Roots of Mouth-to-Mouth Affection
A sweeping look at how kissing emerged in large apes, why Homo neanderthalensis probably kissed too, and what primate behavior can teach us about the evolution of intimacy.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
New comparative research suggests kissing evolved in the great apes and likely occurred in Neanderthals. What seems like a cultural habit may be an ancient primate social tool. #Anthropology #Primatology #HumanEvolution #BehavioralScience www.anthropology.net/p/the-ape-ki...
CT scans are transforming archaeometallurgy. New imaging of 5,000-year-old slag from Iran reveals hidden copper droplets, shifting arsenic, and the inner workings of early furnaces. A fresh look at humanity’s first metalworkers. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Metallurgy #Iran
Ghosts in the Furnace: What CT Scans of Ancient Slag Reveal About Humanity’s First Metallurgists
A new imaging approach exposes the hidden textures of a 5,000-year-old copper industry at Tepe Hissar, offering a rare glimpse into the minds and hands of early metalworkers.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
CT scans are transforming archaeometallurgy. New imaging of 5,000-year-old slag from Iran reveals hidden copper droplets, shifting arsenic, and the inner workings of early furnaces. A fresh look at humanity’s first metalworkers. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Metallurgy #Iran
New long-term data from Ngogo chimpanzees show that lethal territorial gains led to major boosts in fertility and infant survival. The findings offer a rare, living model for how spatial competition and resource control may have shaped past hominin societies. #Anthropology #Primates #HumanEvolution
A long-term study of the Ngogo chimpanzees shows that lethal territorial aggression led to a 22 percent range expansion, doubled birth rates, and dramatically improved infant survival. Territorial gains shaped their evolutionary success. #Chimpanzees #Evolution #Primatology #PNAS
The Territory Paradox: How Violence Shapes Life and Death Among Ngogo Chimpanzees
A decades-long study of wild chimpanzees in Uganda reveals that lethal conflict, territorial expansion, and reproductive success are more tightly linked than many scientists once believed.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
New long-term data from Ngogo chimpanzees show that lethal territorial gains led to major boosts in fertility and infant survival. The findings offer a rare, living model for how spatial competition and resource control may have shaped past hominin societies. #Anthropology #Primates #HumanEvolution