Neanderthals made tools with their own ‘glue’

Analysis of 40,000-year old tools created by Neanderthals reveals surprisingly sophisticated construction, including an adhesive material.

James Devitt-NYU • futurity
Feb. 22, 2024 • ~6 min

Stone Age ‘megastructure’ under Baltic Sea sheds light on strategy used by Palaeolithic hunters over 10,000 years ago

The find represents Europe’s largest human-made megastructure.

Stephanie Piper, Lecturer in Archaeology, University of York • conversation
Feb. 15, 2024 • ~8 min

Prehistoric comet blast helps date stone artifacts

A fragmented comet thought to have smashed into the Earth's atmosphere almost 13 millennia ago is helping archaeologists date stone tools.

Sonia Fernandez-UCSB • futurity
Feb. 9, 2024 • ~7 min

DNA from stone age chewing gum sheds light on diet and disease in Scandinavia's ancient hunter-gatherers

Genetic analysis reveals one of the teenagers probably had advanced gum disease.

Emrah Kırdök, Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Mersin University • conversation
Jan. 18, 2024 • ~7 min

When did archery in the Americas begin?

People in the Americas started to use bow and arrows about 5,000 years ago, coinciding with the growth of exchange networks and when people live in villages

Karen Nikos-UC Davis • futurity
Dec. 21, 2023 • ~6 min

A tooth that rewrites history? The discovery challenging what we knew about Neanderthals – podcast

What could the extinction of Neanderthals tell us about our own species? An archaeologist explains in The Conversation Weekly podcast.

Mend Mariwany, Producer, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation • conversation
Oct. 12, 2023 • ~5 min

Humans got to America 7,000 years earlier than thought, new research confirms

The early settlement of the Americas is hugely contested area of archaeology.

Sally Christine Reynolds, Associate Professor in Hominin Palaeoecology, Bournemouth University • conversation
Oct. 5, 2023 • ~7 min

Stone Carvers Carry on Tradition in Mexico
VOA Learning English • voa
Aug. 27, 2023 • ~5 min

Forensic evidence suggests Paleo-Americans hunted mastodons, mammoths and other megafauna in eastern North America 13,000 years ago

A forensic technique more often used at modern crime scenes identified blood residue from large extinct animals on spearpoints and stone tools used by people who lived in the Carolinas millennia ago.

Christopher R. Moore, Research Professor at the South Carolina Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina • conversation
June 14, 2023 • ~9 min

Bringing Stone Age genomic material back to life

Scientific breakthroughs will enable exploration of Earth’s biochemical past, with hopes of discovering new therapeutic molecules.

Christy DeSmith • harvard
May 4, 2023 • ~6 min

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