Hundreds of ancient ceremonial sites found in southern Mexico
25 October 2021
Researchers have uncovered 478 ceremonial sites that were probably built by the Olmec and the Maya thousands of years ago
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Climate change drove the expansion of the Tupi people in South America
6 October 2021
The Tupi people, who originated in what is now Brazil, probably spread out from this ancestral location following a regional shift to a humid, forest-friendly climate
Ancient humans in Europe may have stolen food from wild hunting dogs
29 July 2021
The earliest humans known to have lived outside Africa shared their environment with hunting dogs – and may even have stolen food from them
We thought our eyes turned off when moving quickly, but that's wrong
23 July 2021
It’s sometimes been assumed that we experience brief periods without vision every time we shift our focus from one point to another – but now it turns out the assumption is wrong
Ancient Roman road discovered at the bottom of the Venice lagoon
22 July 2021
An ancient and now submerged road has been discovered in the Venice lagoon in an area that would have been accessible by land during the Roman era, about 2000 years ago
Just 1.5 to 7 per cent of the modern human genome is uniquely ours
16 July 2021
Just 1.5 to 7 per cent of the modern human genome is uniquely ours – meaning it emerged after we split from other ancient human groups including the Neanderthals and Denisovans
Earliest known war was a repeated conflict in Sudan 13,400 years ago
27 May 2021
Many of the hunter-gatherer-fishers buried at a 13,400-year-old cemetery in Sudan show signs of battle injuries – and a new analysis suggests the fighting occurred on several occasions
Non-kosher fish eaten in Jerusalem during early days of Judaism
25 May 2021
Non-kosher fish was on the menu in what is now Israel and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula while Judaism was developing in the region and the Hebrew Bible was being written there
Isotope study hints ancient Greeks used foreign fighters in key battle
12 May 2021
Some 2500 years ago the Greeks fought many battles – and isotopic analysis of skeletons from one conflict suggests victory may have been made possible with the help of non-Greek mercenaries
Bronze Age miners had cooked meals delivered to their workplace
24 March 2021
People working on mining sites in the Eastern Alps during the Bronze Age had cooked, bread-based meals delivered to them during the day
