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March 26, 2026
Damaged church floor may have revealed the grave of the fourth musketeer
This will not be turning up in the church rummage sale.
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March 20, 2026
Monte Verde site gets a new date, but the big picture doesn't change
Stop trying to make "Clovis First" happen; it's not going to happen.
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March 18, 2026
Never mind Band-Aids, Neanderthals had antiseptic birch tar
Our view of Neanderthal life keeps getting more complex and vibrant.
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March 12, 2026
Centuries before the Inca, Peru's wealthy imported parrots from afar
The Inca Empire's system of roads were built on centuries-old trade routes.
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March 9, 2026
An unlikely set of clues helps reconstruct ancient Chinese disasters
Shang Dynasty oracle bones and modern weather models feature in the same study.
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February 20, 2026
"Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans
The revised age may help make sense of 2-million-year-old stone tools elsewhere in China.
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February 17, 2026
Scientists hunting mammoth fossils found whales 400 km inland
Sometimes, new data raises more questions than it answers.
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January 23, 2026
This 67,800-year-old hand stencil is the world's oldest human-made art
The world's oldest art has an unintentional story to tell about human exploration.
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January 16, 2026
Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark
The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast.
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January 14, 2026
Scientists sequence a woolly rhino genome from a 14,400-year-old wolf’s stomach
Fortunately for paleogeneticists, wolf puppies don't chew their food thoroughly.
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