In the scrublands of northern Australia lies a rock shelter known as Madjedbebe. It has long stood as the oldest evidence of human occupation on the ...

Somatosphere welcomes you to the June edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and ...

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Roughly 60,000 years ago, early Homo sapiens made their way out of Africa into unfamiliar landscapes. There, they encountered their evolutionary cousins: ...

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In the rocky hills just south of Haifa, inside the limestone chamber of Skhul Cave, archaeologists in 1929 uncovered a child's skeleton that refused to fit ...

Fifty years on, Vietnam is still reckoning with the long-term ecological toll of U.S. warfare—a grim warning as Israel and Russia unleash similar ...

Once considered a funny truth, Douglas Adams’s “three rules of technology” now feels increasingly outdated—especially his claim that any technology ...

In a quiet arroyo near Sauce, Uruguay, a calcaneus, the heel bone, of a long-extinct giant ground sloth (Lestodon armatus) sat buried among more than two ...

In a well near the modern city of Faenza, archaeologists stumbled across a set of infant remains so degraded that little more than dental crowns and bone ...