The elongated skull was likely caused by a genetic condition, but it evidently didn’t get in the way of the individual’s ...

There were 22 gold objects, in addition to other impressive grave goods, buried with the deceased, indicating they were ...

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté vegetables, add a nice crisp to some noodles, and more. Humans have been using olive ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

In the north, distinctive lineages such as M27, M28, and M29′Q trace deep roots in New Guinea and Near Oceania, while in the ...

Researchers from the Prehistoric Studies and Research Seminar and the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Barcelona ...

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

Last month, divers off the coast of South Korea retrieved 87 bowls and cups from the dark, swirling waters. The objects were ...

Back in 2019, we told you about an intriguing experiment to test a famous anthropological legend about an elderly Inuit man in the 1950s who fashioned a knife out of his own frozen feces. He used it ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...