We're heartbroken to share that Jane Goodall has died. She wasn't just a scientist; she was an iconoclast who showed the world that chimps have tool-making, complex emotions, and families... just like us. #JaneGoodall #Chimpanzees #Conservation #RootsAndShoots #Legend

Neanderthals thrived in the Ice Age not just through stocky bodies, but with fire, clothing, and high-calorie diets. New research shows cold survival was cultural, anatomical, and physiological. #Neanderthals #HumanEvolution #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/how-neande...

13,000 years ago, Ice Age foragers in Germany used vivid blue azurite—the earliest known in Europe. Not for cave walls, but likely for skin or fabric. A lost palette of the past resurfaces. #Archaeology #Palaeolithic #HumanEvolution @antiquity.ac.uk www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-i...

2,500 years ago, Iberians carved myth into stone. At dawn on the solstice, a monolith’s shadow entered a rock womb—enacting a cosmic union of sun & earth. Fertility, power & time aligned. #Archaeology #Iberians #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/stones-of-...

12,000 years ago, desert dwellers in Arabia carved monumental camels into cliffs—signs of water, memory, and survival. Rock art was more than imagery; it was a lifeline. #Archaeology #Anthropology #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/how-monume...

New fossil research shows humans reshaped mammal communities more than the Ice Age. Farming and livestock spread scrambled natural ecosystems, linking continents with the same domesticated animals. #Archaeology #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Ecology www.anthropology.net/p/how-humans...

At a 3,000-year-old Georgian smelting site, copper workers stockpiled iron-rich rocks to boost their furnaces—showing the skills that paved the way for iron itself. #Archaeology #Caucasus #IronAge #Metallurgy www.anthropology.net/p/how-copper...

Ancient nets hidden in Jomon pottery sherds reveal Japan’s oldest fishing technology. X-ray CT reconstructs 6,000-year-old knots and mesh, showing how tools were recycled into ceramics. #Jomon #Archaeology #Japan #FishingHistory www.anthropology.net/p/nets-in-cl...

Ancient DNA from Mongolian burials shows two Bronze Age herder groups coexisted for centuries before Slab Grave newcomers displaced them. A rare window on coexistence, migration & identity. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #AncientDNA www.anthropology.net/p/when-two-w...

Wood and bone tally sticks from England, China & the Maya world show money began as state accounting—not barter. New research reframes our economic origins. #Anthropology #Archaeology #Money #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/counting-p...

A 4,500-year-old hippopotamus ivory object from a Copper Age hut near Barcelona reveals long-distance trade routes and textile traditions in prehistoric Iberia. #Archaeology #Prehistory #HumanEvolution #Iberia www.anthropology.net/p/an-ivory-t...

A 1-million-year-old skull from China links Homo longi, Denisovans & early Homo sapiens, reshaping our view of human origins in Asia. #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Denisovans www.anthropology.net/p/a-skull-fr...

“Tiny teeth, tiny brains? New study links wisdom-tooth size to brain volume in fossil humans. Homo floresiensis & Homo luzonensis may have shrunk after birth, not before." #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/hobbits-te...

A genomic study of 1,200 South Africans traces sex-biased ancestry from Europeans, Khoe-San, and enslaved peoples, revealing colonialism’s lasting imprint. #Genetics #SouthAfrica #HumanHistory #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/bloodlines...

Genomic evidence from Kenya’s Turkana reveals millennia of adaptation to heat, thirst and meat-rich diets — and warns how urban life may disrupt it. #HumanEvolution #Genomics #Pastoralism www.anthropology.net/p/thirst-hea...

Early Bronze Age Sicilians ate horse meat 1,000 years earlier than thought. Proteomic evidence from ritual pottery at Polizzello reshapes our view of Mediterranean diets and networks. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Horses www.anthropology.net/p/horses-bef...

Charred adzuki beans from a 9,000-year-old site in China reveal a complex, multi-regional story of crop domestication in East Asia. Agriculture began as a network, not a single cradle. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Neolithic www.anthropology.net/p/seeds-of-c...

42,000 years ago on France’s Atlantic fringe, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared beads, pigments, and tools. A jewelry workshop at Saint-Césaire reshapes ideas of contact and culture. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Neanderthals www.anthropology.net/p/shells-pig...

New research shows Homo habilis was prey, not predator. Tooth marks on fossils from Olduvai Gorge point to leopards hunting early humans. #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology #OlduvaiGorge #HomoHabilis www.anthropology.net/p/when-homo-...

Did Maya rulers encode dates in their hand gestures? A new study of Copán’s Altar Q argues its hand signs represent Long Count calendar numbers — a hidden script alongside hieroglyphs. #Maya #Archaeology #Epigraphy www.anthropology.net/p/hands-that...

Researchers used a smartphone LiDAR and a terrestrial scanner to build a precise 3D model of Spain’s La Pileta Cave, revealing Paleolithic art in digital form. #Archaeology #LiDAR #CaveArt #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/pocket-siz...

Ancient tools from Ayvalık, Turkey reveal a forgotten Paleolithic corridor linking Anatolia and Europe. Levallois flakes & handaxes point to early human mobility. #Archaeology #Paleolithic #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/ancient-cr...

A newly recovered Sogdian mural from Tajikistan shows priests approaching a sacred fire — the first of its kind outside funerary contexts — revealing how Zoroastrian fire worship shaped Silk Road elites. #Archaeology #SilkRoad #Sogdians #Zoroastrian www.anthropology.net/p/flames-on-...

Young orangutans in Sumatra learn nest-building by watching their mothers—proof that culture thrives in the canopy. A glimpse into our own evolutionary past. 🌿🦧 #Primatology #Orangutans #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #CulturalTransmission

A 30,000-year-old toolkit from a Gravettian hunter in today’s Czech Republic reveals a life of mobility, recycling & memory. Stone tools tell stories of survival & connection. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Paleolithic #Anthropology

Plastics aren’t just pollution. Archaeologists argue they’re a global archive of human behavior — from ocean floors to lunar landings — shaping the future archaeological record of our time. #Archaeology #Plastics #Anthropocene #Anthropology

Culture may now drive human evolution more than genes. New research argues humans are shifting toward group-level cultural adaptation — a change that could redefine what it means to be human. #Anthropology #Evolution #Culture

Shocked quartz at three iconic Clovis sites strengthens evidence for a cosmic airburst 12,800 years ago — a possible trigger for megafaunal extinctions and the collapse of the Clovis world. #Archaeology #Pleistocene #YoungerDryas

Ancient DNA reveals lentils in the Canary Islands date back 2,000 years, linking North African settlers to today’s crops. These hardy seeds may help future farming. #Archaeobotany #HumanEvolution #AncientDNA

New research links Denisovan habitats to immune genes in today’s humans. From Siberia’s ticks to Southeast Asia’s malaria, ancient landscapes shaped our DNA. #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Denisovans #Immunogenetics

New study reveals hunter-gatherers in Southeast Asia smoke-dried their dead over 10,000 years ago—predating Egyptian and Chinchorro mummies. #Archaeology #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #MortuaryPractices

New DNA research shows Papua New Guineans share ancestry with other Asians but preserved a unique genetic history shaped by isolation & Denisovan ancestry. #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #PapuaNewGuinea #OutOfAfrica

New research from Serbia shows early Neanderthals hunting ibex on steep cliffs 300,000 years ago—organizing camps, fires & butchery zones long before expected. #Archaeology #Neanderthals #HumanEvolution #Zooarchaeology #Paleoanthropology

Across millennia, shortages of iron, iodine & zinc sculpted our DNA. New research shows human genes adapted to local soils, hinting at why some populations face higher deficiency risks today. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Genetics #Nutrition #Anthropology

Stone tools at Latvia’s Zvejnieki cemetery weren’t just for men. Women & children often received them—many unused, some ritually broken—reshaping ideas of Stone Age gender & ritual. #Archaeology #Prehistory #HumanEvolution #Gender #Anthropology

Bronze figurines from Sardinia carry the isotopic fingerprints of Mediterranean trade 3,000 years ago—linking horned-helmeted warriors to networks stretching to Iberia and perhaps Scandinavia. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Nuragic #Anthropology

Isotope clues from Seddin’s monumental burial mounds show Late Bronze Age elites were long-distance travelers linking Scandinavia, Central Europe & Italy. #BronzeAge #Archaeology #HumanMobility #Anthropology

New research links autism’s high prevalence to rapid evolution of a key human neuron type. The same changes that built our unique cognition may have increased neurodiversity. #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Neuroscience

New research explores genes linked to attention in Neanderthals, Denisovans & modern humans. Could hidden brain regions have shaped our species’ focus, planning & tool use? #HumanEvolution #Neanderthal #CognitiveArchaeology #Archaeology

Bronze Age middens in southern Britain weren’t just trash heaps. Isotope evidence shows pigs, cattle, and sheep traveled hundreds of miles to massive feasts—ritual hubs shaping life before the Iron Age. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Feasting www.anthropology.net/p/the-feast-...

A 27,000-year-old figurine from northern France shows patterned hair or netting, hinting at Ice Age style and identity. More than survival, Gravettian hunters carved fashion into stone. #Archaeology #Paleolithic #HumanEvolution #Gravettian #Anthropology

New burials from Portugal’s Tagus estuary reveal how Europe’s last hunter-gatherers honored their children. From stillborn infants to elaborate clay-and-shell graves, the Mesolithic–Neolithic frontier was far from simple. #Archaeology #Iberia #Mesolithic #anthropology #burialpractices

New study from Abrigo de la Malia shows early Homo sapiens hunted deer, horses, and bison in Iberia’s interior 36k years ago—challenging the idea of an “empty” plateau. #Paleoarchaeology #HumanEvolution #Iberia #Zooarchaeology #anthropology

Small-brained Homo naledi buried its dead in a South African cave 300,000 years ago, new research suggests. This discovery challenges the link between brain size and ritual. #Paleoanthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #RisingStarCave @johnhawks.net

Genes reveal a secret history of language. New research shows that as populations mix, their languages borrow and change to surprisingly consistent extents, driven by social forces, not just cognitive limits. #Linguistics #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Genes

A 9,000-year-old quartz knapping workshop in Senegal reveals how Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers shaped tools and fire in a shifting savanna. New light on West Africa’s prehistory. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #StoneAge

A lone Iron Age ingot from Sweden, matched with Polish finds, reveals Baltic exchange networks that linked Scandinavia to Europe’s trade routes. Ancient metal told the story. #Archaeology #IronAge #Baltic

Humans aren’t alone in their talent for voices & babble. 🧠 New research shows dogs, pigs & humans share ancient brain wiring for vocal sounds, while fast-growing infant brains help humans & marmosets learn to talk. #Anthropology #LanguageEvolution #Neuroarchaeology #Linguistics

A new study suggests key human mutations, like those protecting against Trypanosoma, don’t arise randomly but more often where they matter. Could evolution be less accidental than we thought? #HumanEvolution #Genomics #Anthropology @pnas.org

Ancient DNA shows the Slavic migrations reshaped Europe, replacing much of the local gene pool in regions like Poland & Germany. Entire families moved, blending with locals & forming new societies. #Archaeogenetics #HumanEvolution #Slavs