What explains the long stasis of Oldowan sites? @johnhawks.net open.substack.com/pub/johnhawk...

Dentición de un Homo sapiens juvenil del Ateriense, datado en 35-60 ka: Dentition of the Mugharet El'Aliya Fossil Human Maxilla, Morocco

"Understanding prey species spatial behaviour is key to unravelling contemporary hunter-gatherer subsistence and movement patterns....These results reveal that Neanderthals hunted three different groups of game who occupied different areas of the landscape." 🧪🦣🏺

🏺🧪 A reminder, to avoid narrative slippage, that #Naledi burial claims in revised eLife paper were only accepted by one reviewer. 2nd reviewer didn't say that, & had signif remaining reservations re: cave access. Original 3rd revewer missing. Would this be an 'accepted paper' in a typical journal?

Charred pot residues reveal prehistoric Europeans' surprisingly complex cuisines ⛏️🥘 phys.org/news/2026-03...

David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago @dwarkesh.bsky.social youtu.be/Uj6skZIxPuI?...

Why Are So Many New (Old) Human Species Being Found In China? @iflscience.com www.iflscience.com/why-are-so-m...

Declive neandertal y expansión sapiens en la península ibérica: una modelización espacial y demográfica Neanderthal decline and sapiens expansion in the Iberian Peninsula: a spatial and demographic modeling 🏺🧪 Roberto Sáez‬ @robertosaezm.bsky.social

How long does DNA last? - @killgrove.bsky.social www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

16 sitios en Guinea Ecuatorial con 418 herramientas de piedra que muestran ocupaciones humanas hace entre 44-20 ka en África central. Middle Stone Age (MSA) in the Atlantic rainforests of Central Africa. The case of Río Campo region in Equatorial Guinea www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Desaparición de Homo floresiensis y abandono de Liang Bua hace entre 61-47 ka: aridificación e intensificación de caza de fauna local. Onset of summer aridification and the decline of Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua 61,000 years ago

Beloved #toys: a pair of #Roman ivory #dolls with articulated arms and legs found in a tomb of a little #girl from a wealthy family in Emona, Ljubljana/Slovenia. The majority of the dolls in Roman times were made of less valuable materials such as clay, wood or linen. 🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

Shanidar 3 ‘rings the bell’: Virtual ribcage reconstruction and its implications for understanding the Neanderthal bauplan

📢 Stand Up for Science!‬ 🧪 Nationwide - March 7th #standupforscience

Recent Fossil Discoveries at Drimolen Cave, South Africa - David Strait @brianapobiner.bsky.social youtu.be/IXeJRKsaUtk?...

China now appears as a dynamic evolutionary crossroad where multiple Homo lineages may have arisen Palaeoanthropological evidence from China is changing the picture of hominin evolutionary history 🏺🧪 Shi-Xia Yang, @mmartinont.bsky.social & @mdpetraglia.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sparking ancient fires @johnhawks.net open.substack.com/pub/johnhawk...

Virtual reconstruction and comparative study of the face of StW 573 ("Little Foot") sciencepress.mnhn.fr/fr/periodiqu...

🗃️ Also this one is gorgeous: Louise, held by her mother Meave, who is holding - with Richard - a hominin skull. Technosocial hominin worlds connected through time 😍

📽️The 1978 drama miniseries from the BBC, 🧪 The Voyage of Charles Darwin (7 episodes)

What Your DNA Reveals About the Sex Life of Neanderthals @carlzimmer.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/s...

Japan's ancient 'tigers' were actually cave lions, DNA evidence shows ⛏️🧬🦁🇯🇵 phys.org/news/2026-02...

Evidence points to early goat and sheep dairy consumption in Neolithic Iran ⛏️🐏🇮🇷 phys.org/news/2026-02...

Humans Made Poisoned Arrowheads Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Thought @katewong.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/huma...

We are back 😁

160,000-year-old sophisticated stone tools discovered in China may not have been made by Homo sapiens www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Were We Scavengers? Meat-Eating & Human Evolution ~ with Professor BRIANA POBINER @brianapobiner.bsky.social @evolutionsoup.bsky.social youtu.be/80mwdRtDIjo?...

Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia

Mosquitoes Have Been Bugging Humans Since Homo Erectus, 1.8 Million Years Ago #evolutionsoup #evolution #paleoanthropology #science #fossils 👇🏿👇🏽 is.gd/EfZxKm

Matrilineal networks may be the key to understanding Neanderthal mixture @johnhawks.net open.substack.com/pub/johnhawk...

La gracilidad de la cara humana moderna parece deberse a un cambio en el desarrollo de la actividad celular ósea en la región mediofacial, que comienza a ralentizarse en la infancia y se detiene alrededor de la adolescencia.

New study maps where wheat, barley and rye grew before the first farmers found them phys.org/news/2026-02...

Stone Age teenager was mauled by a bear 28,000 years ago, skeletal analysis confirms www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Meet The 1.5-Million-Year-Old ‘Ghost’ In Your Genes. Hint: We’ve Haven’t Found Its Fossils Yet www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...

Human dispersal into East Eurasia: ancient genome insights and the need for research on physiological adaptations

Grabados realizados sobre cinco artefactos de cuevas levantinas de entre 54 y 100 ka: Incised stone artefacts from the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic and human behavioural complexity

I'm pretty excited about a new study of the African influence on Neanderthal X chromosomes. It's because a pattern of dispersal of early modern people based on matrilineal kin networks makes a lot of sense. www.johnhawks.net/p/matrilinea...

We take Australopithecus deyiremeda out of the drawer: two australopithecines in the same landscape @robertosaezm.bsky.social nutcrackerman.com/2025/12/03/s...

🏺 Whoompf, fascinating stuff, demographic modelling suggests Neanderthal admixture in modern humans was largely driven by Neanderthal males having children with modern human females.

Fossil face found in Spanish cave belongs to first known Western European | Science | AAAS @evoscribe.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Mary Leakey's Legacy | Dr. Louise Leakey @louiseleakey.bsky.social @leakeyfoundation.org youtu.be/VIMHQjnmijk?...

Happy to share the new virtual collection of comparative anatomy, SKELETONS ONLINE (cor.iphes.cat). The specimens come from the comparative anatomy collection of @iphes-cerca.bsky.social , in Tarragona (Spain). Please, use it and share!!!

Hominin postcranial remains from Drimolen Main Quarry, South Africa 🏺🧪 @caleyorr.bsky.social , @ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social et al anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... These results might reflect taxonomic variation or evolutionary mosaicism of the postcrania.

Neanderthals, modern humans, and the rules of attraction. Here's my story on a tantalizing study on mating preferences as far back as 250,000 years ago. Gift link: nyti.ms/4bcNzvy

Fantastic paper and very exciting results. Small weight but much higher stature for Homo habilis than other individuals!

#FossilFriday The reconstruction of Yunxian 2: Yunxian, the origin of Homo longi and the denisovan-sapiens evolutionary line wp.me/p4Bi9E-4W8

New video of talk by @christinawarinner.bsky.social given at Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny posted by @ucsandiego.bsky.social explaining how advances in #aDNA and #proteomics can investigate the complex and diverse microbial communities from dental calculus

Neil H. Shubin has been elected as the next NAS President! A leading evolutionary biologist and science communicator, Shubin will succeed Marcia McNutt on July 1. The Academy also named Cherry Murray as International Secretary and elected new councilors. Read more: www.nasonline.org/news/2026_pr...