Archaeologists Thought These Early Cannibals Mostly Ate Children. They Were Wrong
Homo antecessor is among the oldest known human relatives in Europe. Their fossils have long shown grim signs…
Scientists Finally Solve a 100-Year Mystery About France’s Famous Ice Age Cave Paintings
Cave paintings at Font-de-Gaume, Dordogne. Credit: Centre des monuments nationaux/Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de…
This May Be the Oldest Known Victim of a Bear Attack—and It’s Brutal
New research bolsters the theory that a prehistoric adolescent was mauled by a wild animal—likely a bear—in what…
How Fearsome Wolves Became Loyal Dogs — and Changed Human History Forever
The dog diverged from a now-extinct population of wolves 27,000–40,000 years ago, before or during the Last Glacial…
Bronze Age Britons Threw Massive Ragers With Food and Friends From Far Away
You can learn a lot about people by studying their trash, including populations that lived thousands of years…