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Science & Nature A team of paleontologists from New Zealand and Australia has described a new extinct shelduck species from Holocene fossil bone deposits...

Science & Nature A mudslide buried the ceremonial location around 800 CE. The post Lost, ancient cult site unearthed near a Norwegian highway appeared first...

Recipes Did Neanderthals have family recipes? A new study suggests that two groups of Neanderthals living in the caves of Amud and Kebara in...

Science & Nature Paleontologists have retrieved ancient enamel protein sequences from a fossilized tooth of Epiaceratherium sp., a rhinocerotid that lived in Canada’s High...

Science & Nature Paleontologists have discovered protein sequences within dense enamel tissues of ancient rhinocerotid and proboscidean fossils collected at sites of Buluk and...

A colder climate than we have now let ancient people cross the Bering land bridge and enter the Americas Getty Images/iStockphoto This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. A central plot point in the human story is our

Science & Nature East Asian Paleolithic voyagers may have used dugout canoes to cross one of the strongest currents in the world. The post Ancient...

Science & Nature Pre-contact Central and South American dogs (Canis familiaris) -- all dogs preceding contact with European settlers -- descended from a single...