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Betel Nut Use Traced to Ice‑Age Foragers in Sulawesi

Biomolecular traces in teeth and lab tests show habitual nut‑sucking released the psychoactive alkaloid arecoline and could push habitual drug use back before farming.

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INAH Salvage in Tula Uncovers Classic-Era Tombs Linked to Teotihuacan

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Neandertal Tooth Shows Stone-Tool Drilling as Oldest Evidence of Complex Dental Care

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Early Humans in Italy Butchered a 404,000-Year-Old Elephant and Turned Its Bones Into Tools

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Smoke-Dried Mummies in Southeast Asia May Be the World’s Oldest, Study Finds

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Study Finds Maggot Consumption Could Explain Neandertals’ High Nitrogen Levels

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Study Links Human Adaptations to Survival During Ancient Magnetic Field Weakening

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New Study Traces Syphilis Origins to the Americas Before Columbus

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Ancient Genomes Reveal Early Human-Neanderthal Interactions and Extinctions

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New Research Pinpoints Timeline of Ancient Human-Neanderthal Interbreeding

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Ancient Alaskan Sites Reveal Early Human-Canine Relationships

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Neanderthal Child with Down Syndrome Reveals Ancient Compassion

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New Timor Findings Challenge Theories on First Human Migrations to Australia

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Revolutionary Reconstruction of 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Woman Unveiled

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New Research Overturns Previous Beliefs About Stone Age Diets

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Oldest Aboriginal Pottery Discovered in Australia Alters Historical Perspectives

Archaeology

Betel Nut Use Traced to Ice‑Age Foragers in Sulawesi

INAH Salvage in Tula Uncovers Classic-Era Tombs Linked to Teotihuacan

Neandertal Tooth Shows Stone-Tool Drilling as Oldest Evidence of Complex Dental Care

Neanderthal Tooth Shows Earliest Known Dental Surgery, Study Finds

DNA Identifies Four More Sailors From Franklin’s 1845 Arctic Expedition

Kenyan Site Reveals 300,000 Years of Early Oldowan Toolmaking

Neanderthal Ochre ‘Crayons’ Identified in Crimea Study

Early Humans in Italy Butchered a 404,000-Year-Old Elephant and Turned Its Bones Into Tools

Smoke-Dried Mummies in Southeast Asia May Be the World’s Oldest, Study Finds

Study Finds Maggot Consumption Could Explain Neandertals’ High Nitrogen Levels

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Study Links Human Adaptations to Survival During Ancient Magnetic Field Weakening

New Study Traces Syphilis Origins to the Americas Before Columbus

Ancient Genomes Reveal Early Human-Neanderthal Interactions and Extinctions

New Research Pinpoints Timeline of Ancient Human-Neanderthal Interbreeding

Ancient Alaskan Sites Reveal Early Human-Canine Relationships

Neanderthal Child with Down Syndrome Reveals Ancient Compassion

New Timor Findings Challenge Theories on First Human Migrations to Australia

Revolutionary Reconstruction of 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Woman Unveiled

New Research Overturns Previous Beliefs About Stone Age Diets

Oldest Aboriginal Pottery Discovered in Australia Alters Historical Perspectives

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