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Heavy Wool on Pompeii Victims Found in New Analysis as Eruption-Date Dispute Continues

The findings add detail to what people wore during Vesuvius’s destruction without resolving the season of the catastrophe.

Digital Reconstruction of 1.5-Million-Year-Old Ethiopian Skull Redraws Early Homo Erectus Picture

New Study Says 'Little Foot' May Represent an Unknown Australopithecus Species

Viking-Age Grave in Norway Shows Unprecedented Scallop Shell Placement at Woman’s Mouth

Mexico Excavation Reveals 1,400-Year-Old Cube-Shaped Skull in Tamaulipas

Oldest Evidence of Deliberate Fire-Making in Europe Found in England, 400,000 Years Ago

Oldest Confirmed Human Fire-Making Found at 400,000-Year-Old UK Site

Study Finds Roman Rule Hurt Health in British Cities, Not the Countryside

Excavation at Tuam Finds Evidence of Second Infant Burial Ground

Ancient DNA From Southern Africa Reveals Long-Isolated Homo Sapiens Lineage

Study Finds Plant Processing Long Predated Farming, Recasting the Stone Age Diet

Nature Study Ties Burtele Foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, Confirms Coexistence With Lucy’s Species

Genetic Study Dates First Settlement of Australia to 60,000 Years, Via Two Routes

New Ethiopian Fossils Link 3.4-Million-Year-Old ‘Burtele Foot’ to Australopithecus deyiremeda

Study Traces Primate Kissing to a Common Ape Ancestor 16–21 Million Years Ago

Study Finds Selective Exocannibalism of Non-Local Neanderthals at Belgium’s Goyet Caves

Musée de l’Homme Opens ‘Momies’ Exhibition, Reframing Mummification as Global

Researchers Trace the Origins of Kissing to Great Apes 21.5 Million Years Ago

PNAS Study Links Chimp Territorial Killings to Short-Term Reproductive Gains

12,000-Year-Old Israeli Figurine Sets Earliest Known Depiction of a Human–Animal Encounter