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Malawi Pyre Dating to 9,500 Years Ago Is Africa’s Earliest Intentional Cremation

A peer-reviewed analysis reconstructs a labor-intensive cremation ritual by hunter-gatherers at a long-used mortuary site in Malawi.

Kenyan Site Shows 300,000 Years of Oldowan Toolmaking Through Climate Shifts

Earliest European Blue Pigment Confirmed on 13,000-Year-Old German Artifact

Indigo Molecule Found on 34,000-Year-Old Tools Points to Early Plant Processing in Georgia

300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools from China Overturn East Asian Paleolithic Narratives

Neanderthals’ 125,000-Year-Old “Fat Factory” Confirmed as First Large-Scale Bone-Grease Operation

Poland’s Mammoth Tusk Boomerang Dated to 40,000 Years Ago

Study Dates Earliest European Whale Bone Tools to 20,000 Years Ago

Spanish Pebble Yields 43,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Face Abstraction, Fingerprint