2026 • Jan 24
This 67,800-year-old hand stencil is the world's oldest human-made art
The world's oldest art has an unintentional story to tell about human exploration. ...
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2025 • Dec 10
This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires
We didn't start the fire. (Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.) ...
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2025 • Nov 08
10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world
This technological tradition lasted longer than Homo sapiens have even been a species. ...
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2025 • Oct 18
Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution
A recent study found lead in teeth from 2 million-year-old hominin fossils. ...
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2025 • Aug 07
Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis
The stone flakes don't look like much, but they're a clue in an ancient cold case. ...
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