A 10,000-Year Radiocarbon Record Shows the High Pyrenees Were Never Empty
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A new open-access database of 124 dated samples from Catalonia’s Aigüestortes National Park overturns the old assumption that high-altitude landscapes were marginal, seasonal, or uninhabited
Eleven Lines in a Welsh Cave
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What 4,500 Years of Greenland’s Garbage Reveals About Bacteria, Not Plagues
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Three Bodies on a Floodplain: What a 100,000-Year-Old Site in Ethiopia Is Telling Us About Early Homo sapiens open.substack.com/pub/anthropo...
The Tombs Were Not for Families
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What the Stone Remembers
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The Cave That Kept Giving
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The Kitka Man Went to Iceland
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The Younger One Climbed More
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A genomic survey of Inuit and Norse waste heaps found centuries-old pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes still detectable in the permafrost. The researchers also found they’re not going anywhere.
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A rare open-air site in the Afar Rift preserves stone tools, animal bones, and three partial human skeletons — each with a different story about how they ended up in the ground.
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Ancient DNA from Neolithic megalithic sites rewrites what we knew about kinship, mobility, and how monumental culture spread across Europe
Two hominins, one valley, and what their bones reveal about the crooked path to upright walking
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Thirty years of excavation at El Mirón have turned a limestone cave in Cantabrian Spain into one of the most complete records of human prehistory in Europe.
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A 16th-century Sámi burial in northern Finland held the bones of someone who didn't stay in one place
