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- 10 Million Euro ERC Synergy Grant Awarded for Study of the Cognitive and Cultural Evolution of Numeracy
- Mixture and Migration Brought Food Production to sub-Saharan Africa
- African Skeletons From Early Colonial Mexico Tell the Story of First Generation Slaves
- Human Mobility and Western Asia’s Early State-Level Societies
- Ancient Genomes Link Subsistence Change and Human Migration in Northern China
- Ancient Human Footprints in Saudi Arabia Provide Snapshot of Arabian Ecology 120,000 Years Ago
- Languages and Genes Shed Light on pre-Incan Cultural Development in Central Andes
- Beads Made of Boa Bones Identified in Lesser Antilles
- Discovery of Oldest Bow and Arrow Technology in Eurasia
- Available Now: Cambridge World History of Violence
- Cannibalism Helps Invading Invertebrates Survive Severe Conditions
- CLICS: World’s Largest Database of Cross-Linguistic Lexical Associations
- The Origin of Feces: coproID Reliably Predicts Sources of Ancient Poop
- The Aroma of Distant Worlds
- Owner Behavior Affects Effort and Accuracy in Dogs’ Communications
- 5200-Year-Old Cereal Grains From the Eastern Altai Mountains Predate the Trans-Eurasian Crop Exchange
- Interdisciplinary Study Reveals New Insights Into the Evolution of Signed Languages
- Extended Parenting Helps Young Birds Grow Smarter
- “COVID-19 is here to stay for the foreseeable future” – Field Work in the Time of Coronavirus
- An Iconic Native American Stone Tool Technology Discovered in Arabia
- Population Dynamics and the Rise of Empires in Inner Asia
- Heightened Interaction Between Neolithic Migrants and Hunter-Gatherers in Western Europe
- Johannes Krause Wins “Fabio Frassetto” International Prize for Paleoanthropology
- Direct Evidence of Late Pleistocene Human Colonization of Isolated Islands Beyond Wallace’s Line
- Cereal, Olive & Vine Pollen Reveal Market Integration in Ancient Greece
- A Tale of Two Cesspits: DNA Reveals Intestinal Health in Medieval Europe and the Middle East
- Middle Stone Age Populations Repeatedly Occupied West African Coast
- 5000 Year Old Milk Proteins Point to the Importance of Dairying in Eastern Eurasia
- How Millets Sustained Mongolia’s Empires
- More Than One Cognition: A Call for Change in the Field of Comparative Psychology
- Remains of 17th Century Bishop Support Neolithic Emergence of Tuberculosis
- Neolithic Genomes From Modern-Day Switzerland Indicate Parallel Ancient Societies
- Oldest Connection with Native Americans Identified Near Lake Baikal in Siberia
- Patrick Roberts Made National Geographic ‘Explorer’
- Ancient Genomic Insights Into the Early Peopling of the Caribbean
- Pofatu: A New Database for Geochemical “Fingerprints” of Artefacts
- Reverse Engineering Cash: Researchers Investigate How Coin Designs Communicate Value
- Altai Pastoralism Project Funded by National Geographic Society and Wenner-Gren Foundation
- Oldest Securely Dated Evidence for a River Flowing Through the Thar Desert, Western India
- Oldest Reconstructed Bacterial Genomes Link Agriculture and Herding With Emergence of New Disease
- Anthropogenic Seed Dispersal: Rethinking the Origins of Plant Domestication
- Societal Transformations and Resilience in Arabia Across 12,000 Years of Climate Change
- New Neural Network Differentiates Middle and Late Stone Age Toolkits
- Syphilis May Have Spread Through Europe Before Columbus
- Human Populations Survived the Toba Volcanic Super-Eruption 74,000 Years Ago
- A Tropical Disease in Medieval Europe Revises the History of a Pathogen Related to Syphilis
- Tropical Trees Are Living Time Capsules of Human History
- Strengthened Research Profiles, Novel Visions for the Future
- Vast Stone Monuments Constructed in Arabia 7,000 Years Ago
- Dogs and Wolves Are Both Good at Cooperating
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- Genetics Preserves Traces of Ancient Resistance to Inca Rule
- Archaeologists Find Key to Tracking Ancient Wheat in Frozen Bronze Age Box
- Aboriginal Hair Shows 50,000 Years Connection to Country
- Early Indian Ocean Trade Routes Bring Chicken, Black Rat to Eastern Africa
- “A Turning Point in the Study of Cultural Evolution”
- Humans Learn Complex Grammatical Patterns Even in Extremely Challenging Circumstances
- Populations Along the Eastern Mediterranean Coast Share a Genetic Heritage That Transcends Nationality
- Revising the Story of the Dispersal of Modern Humans Across Eurasia
- Identifying Major Transitions in Human Cultural Evolution
- The ‘Myth’ of Language History: Languages Do Not Share a Single History but Different Components Evolve Along Different Trajectories and at Different Rates
- Legibility Emerges Spontaneously, Rather Than Evolving Over Time
- MPI-SHH Supports March For Science
- DNA Analyses Provide Information About the Settling of the Iberian Peninsula
- Shedding New Light on the Ancient Mediterranean
- Ancient DNA Reveals Origins of the Minoans and Mycenaeans
- Mobile Women Were Key to Cultural Exchange in Stone Age and Bronze Age Europe
- Precision Chronology Sheds New Light on the Origins of Mongolia’s Nomadic Horse Culture
- The First Genome Data from Ancient Egyptian Mummies
- DNA of Early Neanderthal Gives Timeline for New Modern Human-Related Dispersal From Africa
- Neolithic Farmers Coexisted With Hunter-Gatherers for Centuries After Spreading Across Europe
- Persistent Tropical Foraging in the Highlands of Terminal Pleistocene/Holocene New Guinea
- New Study: Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure
- Computational Methods Applied to Big Datasets Are Compelling Tools for Historical Linguistics
- Plague Likely a Stone Age Arrival to Central Europe
- Johannes Krause Awarded 22nd Annual Thuringian Research Prize for Top Performance in Basic Research
- Humans Have Been Altering Tropical Forests for at Least 45,000 Years
- Why Do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages?
- Wolves Understand Cause and Effect Better Than Dogs
- 2016
- Ancient Genomes Reveal That the English Are One Third Anglo-Saxon
- Ancient DNA Shows European Wipe-Out of Early Americans
- Gastritis Pathogens Found in Oetzi the Iceman
- The Hideout of the Black Death
- Ancient Crops Provide a Window Into Madagascar’s Past
- The Hidden Bacterial Legacy of Ancient Cultures
- Genetics Reveals the Impact of Lifestyle on Evolution
- Genome of 6,000-Year-Old Barley Grains Sequenced for First Time
- Europe’s Population Dramatically Changed at the End of the Last Ice Age
- Massive Open-Access Database on Human Cultures Created
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- The Dark Side of Religion
- "No Anthropocene Without Us!"
- Shedding Light on the Justinian Plague
- In Search of a Golden Age - the Hunt for War Treasure in the Philippines Has Hidden Meanings
- Neandertal Cannibalism and Neandertal Bones Used as Tools in Northern Europe
- Archaeogenetics Reveals Unknown Migration in the South Pacific
- European Black Death as Source of Modern Plague
- ‘Pristine’ Landscapes Haven’t Existed for Thousands of Years Due to Human Activity
- Sound of Words Is No Coincidence
- Prehistoric Loss of Biodiversity
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