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Ice‑Age Sulawesi Teeth Push Earliest Habitual Drug Use Back 25,000 Years

Biomolecular traces in teeth together with lab receptor tests indicate habitual betel‑nut sucking began long before farming.

Proteins Identify Multiple Denisovan Bones and Tools at Bianfu Cave

Nearly Intact Chimú Funerary Platform Found at Chan Chan

Young Chimpanzees Develop Population-Specific Vocal Dialects

Researchers Propose Campfire Storytelling as a Driver of Spoken Language

Scientists Reconstruct Face and Life of 11th‑Century ‘Conquest Man’

17th-Century Teen Found With Padlock on Toe and Sickle at Throat Points to Anti‑demonic Burial Practices

Researcher Proposes Folding Australopithecus and Paranthropus into an Expanded Genus Homo

Archaeologists Find 1,400‑Year‑Old Human Offering in Huaca Pucllana Canal

Human Burial Found at Base of Iron Age Stone‑Lined Well in Northern Scotland

16 Mummies and a Dog in Theban Tomb Reveal Orderly Long‑term Reuse

Penghu Seabed Leg Bones Identified as Denisovan Fossils

Scientists Detect DNA From Two Unknown Ancient Hominins in Modern Humans

Study Says Fruit and Honey Fueled Early Human Brain Growth

Neandertal Growth Hormone Receptor Linked to Small Increases in Muscle and Height

New ARG Method Finds ‘Ghost’ and Super‑Archaic Hominin DNA in All Humans

Thumbnail Mammoth‑Ivory Birds Unearthed at Hohle Fels

1.43-Million-Year-Old Footprints Suggest Paranthropus boisei Walked in Male Groups

Tiny Mammoth‑Ivory Birds Unearthed at Hohle Fels

Royal Women’s Bones Suggest Weapon Training in Middle Kingdom Tombs