Anthropology

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

Science Advances paper reveals systematic bone fragmentation with heating of 172 large mammals to extract lipids for potential storage.

300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools From China Show Early Hominins’ Advanced Plant Technology

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

Experimental Archaeologists Recreate 30,000-Year-Old Sea Crossing From Taiwan to Yonaguni

Incestuous ‘God-Kings’ Theory in Neolithic Ireland Disproved

Gas Workers Unearth 1,000-Year-Old Chancay Mummy Beneath Lima Streets

6,000-Year-Old Venus of Kolobrzeg Unveiled in Poland

Harbin Skull Identified as First Near-Complete Denisovan Cranium

Placental Steroid Hypothesis Links Hormones to Human Brain Evolution

Harbin 'Dragon Man' Skull Identified as First Complete Denisovan Cranium

Humans Developed Ecological Flexibility in Africa Before Migrating Into Eurasia

Neanderthals Traveled 2,000 Miles Across Eurasia Using River Valleys

New Orleans Jazz Funeral Honors 19 Black Individuals Repatriated From Germany

Forensic Police Authenticate 43,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Fingerprint in Spain

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

43,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Fingerprint on Ochre Pebble Reveals Early Symbolic Art

6,000-Year-Old Indigenous Artifacts Discovered at Hockey Rink Site in Quebec

Largest Study of Aztec Obsidian Reveals Trade and Ritual Practices

Schöningen Spears Confirmed as 200,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Hunting Tools

Elite Hallucinogenic Rituals at Chavín de Huántar Linked to Early Andean Class Divisions