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A reanalysis of animal bones from Kathleen Kenyon’s 1952–1958 excavations at Jericho (Tel es-Sultan), beside the modern city of Jericho, finds no convincing evidence that metal knives were routinely…
At GaJi10 in the Koobi Fora Formation on Lake Turkana’s eastern shore in northern Kenya, researchers documented 21 hominin footprints representing at least eight individuals on a single Early…
A new synthesis of Lapita animal remains across the Southwest Pacific uses Vanuatu, especially Teouma on Efate Island, as its central case study for how early settlers combined fishing, hunting and…
Three tombs uncovered during the current Egyptian excavation season at Sheikh Sobi in Bahariya Oasis preserve burials and funerary material from more than one phase of the site’s use. The first is a…
Five of ten quartz-backed microliths from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter, near Hillcrest in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, yielded residues containing the toxic plant alkaloid buphanidrine; one also…
Rectangular buildings that may have served as dwellings have been exposed in a newly opened excavation area north of Göbekli Tepe’s better-known monumental enclosures, about 15 kilometres northeast…