A 13,000-year-old stone from Germany holds traces of the earliest blue pigment ever found in European prehistory, expanding our view of how humans played with color at the edge of the Ice Age.| www.anthropology.net
New analysis of Latvia’s Zvejnieki cemetery reveals stone tools were not just for men—or even adults| www.anthropology.net
How Paleolithic humans worked a non-edible plant into daily life 34,000 years ago| www.anthropology.net
Isotope analysis of a single molar reveals a Welsh connection, seasonal movements, and even a hint of pregnancy during the age when Stonehenge was rising.| www.anthropology.net
New research suggests the first urban society emerged from a landscape in motion, not a static floodplain.| www.anthropology.net
A rapidly evolving enhancer, HAR123, may explain why the human brain took a different path from that of chimpanzees—and why our species developed the gift of cognitive flexibility.| www.anthropology.net
New evidence from Kenya’s Homa Peninsula suggests that by 2.6 million years ago, early hominins were carrying raw materials for stone tools over miles of open landscape| www.anthropology.net
A Speleothem’s Story Pushes the Great Maya Droughts into Sharper Focus| www.anthropology.net
Finger grooves on crystal-coated walls reveal rare gestures tied to ritual power in GunaiKurnai Country| www.anthropology.net
Neanderthals may have dined on putrid flesh and protein-packed larvae, not just mammoth steaks. A new study challenges the myth of the Ice Age “hypercarnivore.”| www.anthropology.net
A new archaeological study finds inequality is neither inevitable nor uniform, challenging centuries of assumptions about how societies grow—and what they value.| www.anthropology.net
Children's Vital Role in Prehistoric Cave Rituals.| www.anthropology.net
Humans, Not Nature, Drove the Dawn of Agriculture.| www.anthropology.net
The Puzzle of Human Language Origins| www.anthropology.net
Ancient tracks in White Sands, New Mexico, suggest early humans built and used primitive transport devices| www.anthropology.net
