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Ancient teeth reveal humans were getting high 25,000 years ago

Ancient human remains from Sulawesi suggest people were habitually using the psychoactive betel nut as far back as 25,000 years ago. Researchers found both unusual tooth wear and t...

A 25,000-Year-Old Drug Habit Was Hidden in Ancient Teeth

Ancient teeth suggest humans were using psychoactive betel nuts 25,000 years ago, pushing the history of habitual drug use deep into the Ice Age. Archaeologists from Griffith Unive...

A 230,000-Year-Old <em data-pasted="true">Homo sapiens</em> Fossil Reveals Early Humans Were More Robust Tha...

Learn more about Omo I, whose skeleton provides key details on the origins of modern humans. 

400,000-year-old teeth reveal a hidden link in human evolution

More than 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth from China may reveal a surprising link between this ancient human species, Denisovans, and some modern people. Scientists found prote...

80,000-year-old “arrowheads” rewrite human history

Archaeologists have identified tiny 80,000-year-old projectile points in Uzbekistan that may have been used like arrowheads. Their size, design, and impact damage closely resemble...

Rare Antelope Proteins Linked to 60,000-Year-Old Ochre Point to Hidden Aspects of Early Human Behavior

Learn how eland proteins found in 60,000-year-old ochre sediments from South Africa may point to unknown technical and symbolic behaviors of early humans.

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Scientists found Homo erectus 200,000 years earlier than expected

New fossils from South Africa are reshaping the story of early human evolution. Researchers have described 18 hominin fossils from Drimolen Cave, including an adult Homo erectus sk...

Neanderthal Europe was as much a wooden age as a stone age

When Neanderthals dominated Europe, it was likely that wood was at least as important to them as stone for working into tools

Scientists Discover Ancient Human DNA Hidden in Cave Walls for Thousands of Years

Ancient DNA from cave walls offers clues to prehistoric visitors’ sex and ancestry, potentially allowing scientists to investigate who used these spaces without disturbing archaeol...

Ancient Human Teeth Uncover a Genetic Connection Hidden for 400,000 Years

Enamel proteins from Homo erectus teeth suggest genetic links to Denisovans while offering a less destructive way to study ancient human fossils. A handful of ancient teeth may pre...

Thousands of Artifacts Unearthed in Alaska Hint at an Even Older Human Presence in the Americas

The 13,800-year-old archaeological site points to an ancient cultural connection spanning the Bering Land Bridge.

Plague was killing entire families thousands of years before the Black Death

Ancient DNA reveals that plague was already killing hunter-gatherers in Siberia 5,500 years ago, long before cities and flea-driven epidemics. The prehistoric strains may have been...

Scientists Discover the Earliest Evidence of Drug Use in Really Old Teeth

A hunter-gatherer who lived in Indonesia as early as 25,000 years ago may have regularly sucked on betel nuts to release their psychoactive properties.

Scientists Decode a 12,000-Year-Old Mystery Hidden in Ancient Spear Points

An analysis of roughly 500 spear points suggests that inherited knowledge of stone deposits helped Ice Age hunters decide which tools were worth carrying. Ice Age hunters in the Te...

Neanderthals may have used prehistoric glue as an ancient antibiotic

Neanderthals may have used a sticky substance made from birch bark to treat wounds thousands of years before antibiotics existed. Researchers recreated ancient birch tar production...

Archaeologists Thought Prehistoric Cannibalism Was Always the Same. The Bones Tell a Very Different Story

The Neolithic was an evolutionary and social turning point for humans—and these changes sometimes took a dark turn.

80,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Could Rewrite the Story of How Humans Reached Europe

Microlithic projectile points from Uzbekistan may link Central Asia to a revised story of Homo sapiens’ early expansion into Europe. Researchers have identified tiny triangular pro...

Scientists unlock new clues to what Denisovans, a mysterious ancient human ancestor, looked like

An analysis of ancient bones found in a Chinese cave offer glimpses of how Denisovans lived more than 130,000 years ago

Ancient DNA suggests that people in Neolithic Britain commonly had olive-brown skin, dark hair, and…

Ancient DNA suggests that people in Neolithic Britain commonly had olive-brown skin, dark hair, and...

Earliest evidence of habitual drug use found in teeth in Indonesia

Strange, rounded grooves in prehistoric teeth are thought to have been made by regularly sucking whole betel nuts to extract a pain-relieving compound. This marks the earliest know...

Neanderthal remains may be earliest human ancestor find killed by a spear

Adult excavated in an Iraqi Kurdistan cave died more than 70,000 years ago and bears ‘kill shot’ shoulder woundA smooth round hole in the shoulder blade of a Neanderthal who died...

Early Hominins Walked Farther And More Efficiently – New Study

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Most people walk heel to toe, taking thousands of steps each day. A new study shows that heel-first walking is more uniquely human than prev...

1.4-million-year-old footprints reveal a surprisingly large human relative

Ancient footprints in Kenya reveal that eight Paranthropus boisei may have traveled together 1.4 million years ago, with some individuals reaching surprisingly large, human-like bo...