Stories: This Month

190,000-year-old cave reveals how Denisovans lived and adapted in southwestern China

Ice Age origins of one of humanity's oldest drug habits found in Sulawesi teeth

Huge complex of Iron Age salt-mining chambers discovered beneath Hallstatt

Prehistoric builders hauled 25-tonne stones 18 km to build Britain's tallest stone row

Tomb of a late Fifth Dynasty judge uncovered north of Saqqara

105 square meters of Roman mosaics and an Eros head unearthed at Pompeiopolis

Funerary platform with 38 high-status individuals uncovered at Chan Chan

Mystery Statue Unearthed at Sardis Archaeological Dig

Ancient bones reveal that cannibalism took different forms in Neolithic Spain

4,000-Year-Old Tomb Unearthed in Saqqara

1.4-Million-Year-Old Footprints Reveal a Larger Human Relative in Kenya

Roadworks in Georgia's capital uncover rare 10th-century pottery cache

INAH studies ritual bloodletting spines recovered from Maya Train Section 1

Unusual Neolithic Sculpture Uncovered at Karahantepe, Turkey

Ancient DNA Reveals Cacao Was Consumed in Georgia 1,000 Years Ago

Dwellings Detected Near Monuments at Göbekli Tepe

New fossils show Tasmanian devils lived with people in outback Western Australia 45,000 years ago

Metal detectorist unearths Finland's largest Viking Age silver hoard near Sysmä

A forgotten Egyptian mummy head in Vilnius: CT, analytical, and bioarchaeological insights

From individualized mummies to collective accumulations: an archaeothanatological analysis of funerary reuse in Theban Tomb 209 (Twenty-Fifth Dynasty–Ptolemaic Egypt)

Anthracological analysis of charcoal from Bara, Southwestern Nigeria: implications for paleoenvironment and firewood history

Tracing giants through time: stable isotope insights into the historical ecology of North Atlantic sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus)

Bioarchaeological reassessment of Dahshur royal skeletal remains from the Late Middle Kingdom (c. 1850–1700 BCE)

Mea culpa: revisiting the zooarchaeological perspective on the origins of metal use for quotidian activities at Jericho (Tel es-Sultan)