Science ❯ Archaeology

Excavation Sites

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

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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.

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

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last yr.

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

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