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A toddler from Syria and a young woman from Spain, digitally reassembled, point toward pelvic floor stability rather than locomotion as the constraint that shaped the birth canal.
Cut marks on 82 vertebrae, all in the same anatomical spot, and what they say about diet at the threshold of sedentism
Chemical and petrographic analysis of Qurayyah Painted Ware traces a thousand-year ceramic tradition and asks whether its fourth iteration crossed a line into something like commercial branding.
A morphometric study of Hizen Ogame finds that burial context structured vessel form more strongly than the passage of time did.
New dating at a lakeside site in the Nefud, plus a comparison of 704 Levallois flakes, puts a familiar Levantine population deeper into the desert than any fossil can currently confirm.
A new synthesis argues that the three-genus framework at the heart of paleoanthropology is not a phylogenetic hypothesis but a leftover habit, and that the field knows it.
A new analysis argues the hip sockets of Homo sapiens males migrated forward, turning the pelvis into a spring, and that nearly every other male-female difference falls out of that one shift.
What a small red plaque from a cave in eastern Indonesia says about what Austronesian voyagers actually carried across the Pacific.
A genomic study of 42 ancient hunter-gatherers traces cold-survival genes back to an isolated Ice Age population, and finds a “ghost population” in Hokkaido that vanished from the record
Crucibles from a government workshop in Guangzhou push the archaeological record of Chinese brass-making back six centuries, and point toward the sea rather than the Silk Road
