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Early humans used fire to permanently change the landscape tens of...

Staff Writer - May 12, 2021

Jessica Thompson, Yale University; David K. Wright, University of Oslo, and Sarah Ivory, Penn State Fields of rust-colored soil,...

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Early humans used fire to permanently change the landscape tens of...

Staff Writer - May 5, 2021

Jessica Thompson, Yale University; David K. Wright, University of Oslo, and Sarah Ivory, Penn State Fields of rust-colored soil,...

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How do archaeologists know where to dig?

Staff Writer - December 5, 2020

Gabriel D. Wrobel, Michigan State University and Stacey Camp, Michigan State University National Geographic magazines and Indiana Jones movies might have you picturing archaeologists excavating...

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Archaeologists determined the step-by-step path taken by the first people to...

Staff Writer - October 2, 2020

Matthew F. Napolitano, University of Oregon; Jessica Stone, University of Oregon; Robert DiNapoli, Binghamton University, State University of New York, and Scott Fitzpatrick, University...

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What archaeology tells us about the music and sounds made by...

Staff Writer - September 30, 2020

Joshua Kumbani, University of the Witwatersrand Music has been part and parcel of humanity for a long time. Not every sound is musical, but sound...

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When did we become fully human? What fossils and DNA tell...

Staff Writer - September 21, 2020

Nick Longrich, University of Bath When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there’s remarkably little agreement on this question....

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Ancient DNA is revealing the genetic landscape of people who first...

Staff Writer - September 15, 2020

Melinda A. Yang, University of Richmond The very first human beings originally emerged in Africa before spreading across Eurasia about 60,000 years ago. After that,...