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Only elites used hallucinogens in ancient Andes society
"The Wari examples are about 1,000 years later, as are the Tiwanaku ones, so maybe…
Prehistoric bone tool cache suggests advanced reasoning in early hominins
A prehistoric bone tool “factory” Bone tools shaped by knapping, however, were much rarer until…
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Skull long thought to be Cleopatra’s sister’s was actually a young boy
Scientists have demonstrated that an ancient human skull excavated from a tomb at Ephesos was…
Inside the hands-on lab of an experimental archaeologist
Back in 2019, we told you about an intriguing experiment to test a famous anthropological…
Studies pin down exactly when humans and Neanderthals swapped DNA
In a second study, Arev Sümer (also of the Max Planck Institute) and her colleagues…