Neanderthals May Have Invented the Original Crayon

I n another blow to the image of Neanderthal as brutish troglodyte, we’ve identified the tools the ancient hominin used to ...
Indian Defence Review on MSN

20,000-Year-Old Tools Found in the U.S. Rewrite the Origins of the First Americans

New evidence from ancient stone tools suggests the First Americans may have sailed from Asia over 20,000 years ago, ...
New Scientist

Does the family tree of ancient humans need a drastic rewrite?

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

Signatures meant more in Mesopotamia than they do now − what cylinder seals say about ancient and modern life

Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for many firsts in human history, including writing, urbanism and the state. Among these ...