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Study Finds Earliest Known Dice Were Made by Ice Age Native Americans

A peer-reviewed reanalysis reframes the origins of gaming as a North American innovation in randomness.

Study Finds 12,000-Year-Old Native American Dice That Upend the History of Chance

Templo Mayor Dig Yields 43 Mezcala Figures in Moctezuma I–Era Offering

Study of 5,500-Year-Old Gotland Graves Finds Co-Burials Were Often Extended Kin

Reexamined Neolithic Antler Headpiece Points to Shamanic Tradition in Central Germany

Mexico Unveils 1,400-Year-Old Zapotec Tomb With Owl Monument and Murals

First Afar Paranthropus Fossil Pushes Genus’ Range 1,000 Kilometers North

67,800-Year-Old Hand Stencil on Indonesia’s Muna Island Sets Oldest Cave Art Record

Rare HD Footage Shows Uncontacted Amazon Tribe in Peru

Major Review Finds Same-Sex Sexual Behavior Common in Primates, Linked to Social and Environmental Pressures

Moroccan Hominin Fossils Dated to 773,000 Years Bolster African Roots of the Homo Sapiens Lineage

9,500-Year-Old Malawi Find Is Africa’s Earliest Cremation and Oldest Adult Pyre

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

Reexamined 1936 Finds Reveal Harz’s Oldest Reindeer Antler and Human Marrow Extraction

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

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

Study Finds Earliest Strong Evidence of Hominin Fire-Making at 400,000-Year-Old English Site

Study Pushes Europe’s Earliest Fire-Making Back to 400,000 Years

Humans Rank Seventh in New Mammal Monogamy Study, Below Beavers and Above Meerkats

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