Tag: human origins

One would expect a mummy to smell moldy, musty, and mildewy. But the first study to systematically sniff the wrapped ...

In the cave of El Mirón in northern Spain, intrigue surrounds a woman who was laid to rest there 19,000 ...

The story of Homo sapiens is written largely in artifacts. Countless tools, potsherds, and other relics line museum shelves, illuminating ...

Although we often associate dogs as man’s best friend, new information suggests that sheep may have been by our side ...

Centuries of votive offerings cast into a lake in Denmark and other archaeological discoveries have revealed that barbarian warriors may ...

When Homo neanderthalensis first came in contact with Homo sapiens around 50,000 years ago, in what’s now the Middle East, ...

Sometimes it’s good not to wash the dishes. Food preparation tools recovered from an Israel archeological excavation that started in ...

It’s perhaps historically appropriate that the word “ironic” contains “iron.” Mining and smelting minerals like iron represented technological highs at ...

When most people think of Neanderthals, they picture a classic caveman caricature — brutish and backward, a relic of the ...

Taking five or six years to read 18 lines of Latin might seem slow. But the painstaking effort was worthwhile, ...