Science ❯ Archaeology

Excavation Sites

Atapuerca Yunxian Amud Cave Liang Bua Blackwater Draw Megalithic Tombs Suffolk UK Barnham Site Malta Üçağızlı II Cave Afar Region Ilsenhöhle Eastern Europe Hell Creek Formation Gesher Benot Ya’aqov Ledi-Geraru Neumark-Nord Casal Lumbroso Rising Star Cave Tunnug 1 Ice Age

11 ARTICLES

last mo.

Study Says 'Hobbits' Scavenged Komodo Dragon Kills, Not Big-Game Hunters

Taphonomic experiments and systematic bone analyses find no reliable evidence of fire use and indicate Homo floresiensis mainly accessed meat left by Komodo dragons, forcing a reappraisal of its behavior and ancestry.

4 ARTICLES

10mo ago

Study Finds Early Humans in Italy Butchered Straight‑Tusked Elephants and Turned Bones Into Tools

5 ARTICLES

11mo ago

Shocked Quartz at Three Clovis Sites Revives Case for Younger Dryas Comet Airburst

9 ARTICLES

last yr.

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