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August 27, 2026
Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago
"We built this city on good cacao" does have a nice ring to it.
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August 17, 2026
Meet the only known trebuchet casualty in history
"It highlights the brutality of medieval warfare," said paleopathologist Jo Buckberry.
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August 12, 2026
Did poop enable the evolution of complex animals?
In a recent study, evolution gets even messier than usual.
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July 9, 2026
Flores Hobbits' eating habits offer clues about their evolutionary past
If Homo floresiensis wasn't a fire-using hunter, its origins could be different than we thought.
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June 25, 2026
Every Homo naledi we know of is female, and the implications are fascinating
"There is no natural explanation," says paleoanthropologist John Hawks.
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June 18, 2026
Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago
We can't blame the Neolithic Transition for the plague anymore.
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June 6, 2026
Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing
What’s the difference between a person, an artifact, and an ecosystem?
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