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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

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

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

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

Study Identifies 4,300-Year-Old West Bank Goblet as Earliest Known Creation Scene

New Model Recasts Neanderthal 'Extinction' as Genetic Absorption Into Modern Humans

Nature Study Finds 8,500-Year-Old Ancestry in Central Argentina That Endures Today

Study Finds Early Maya Monument Aguada Fénix Is a Vast Cosmogram Built by Communal Labor

Kenyan Site Reveals 300,000 Years of Early Oldowan Toolmaking

Neanderthals Crafted Crayon-Like Ochre Tools in Crimea and Ukraine, Study Finds

New Study Shows Maya Eclipse Forecasts Stayed Accurate for Centuries

New Report Warns Nearly Half of Uncontacted Peoples Could Vanish Within a Decade

ABC Launches Deep Time, an Interactive Map of 65,000 Years of First Nations History

First Paranthropus Boisei Hand Reveals Human-Like Dexterity With Gorilla-Like Power

Long Postreproductive Lifespans Documented in Female Mountain Gorillas

Rebuilt Chinese Fossil Skull Suggests Earlier Human Lineage Split

Study Pushes Earliest Mummification to Southeast Asia 12,000–14,000 Years Ago