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See the face of 'Ava,' a Bronze Age woman who lived in Scotland 3,800 years ago
Researchers created a 3D image of a Bronze Age woman who was likely part of Europe’s “Bell Beaker” culture.
Men hunt and women gather? Large analysis says the long-held idea is flat-out wrong
Scientists studying hunter-gatherer societies around the world discovered the stereotypes that men were hunters and women were gatherers was wrong.
See the face of the 'Hobbit,' an extinct human relative
A new facial approximation offers insight into one of humankind's extinct relatives, Homo floresiensis.
86,000-year-old human bone found in Laos cave hints at 'failed population' from prehistory
The discovery of a skull and shin bone fragment in a cave in Laos pushes back the earliest known date of Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia.
Massive, 1.2 million-year-old tool workshop in Ethiopia made by 'clever' group of unknown human relatives
An unknown group of hominins crafted more than 500 obsidian hand axes more than 1.2 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.
Stockpile of 2,000-year-old gemstones found in Roman bathhouse drain
What caused a clog in this 2,000-year-old Roman bathhouse? A treasure trove of gemstones, that’s what.
Beneath a busy street in Jerusalem sits a 1,000-year-old moat with a secret handprint
Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed a massive moat beneath a busy roadway. But a handprint etched into the stone structure remains a mystery.
World's oldest runestone may contain the earliest example of writing in Scandinavia
Archaeologists unearth "world’s oldest runestone" in Norway
