Poisoned arrows: the earliest possible trace may reach back 54,000 years
A study from Aarhus and Johannesburg re-reads the geometry of Late Pleistocene points and raises an unsettling question: were our ancestors…
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From 3 million years ago to the dawn of our era: archaeological discoveries, palaeogenetics, cave art and the great transformations of human societies.
A study from Aarhus and Johannesburg re-reads the geometry of Late Pleistocene points and raises an unsettling question: were our ancestors…
Read →In a cave in Puglia, the exceptionally preserved remains of an infant who died around 17,000 years ago have yielded the oldest known genome…
Read →At the bottom of Lake Arendsee, in Saxony-Anhalt, divers have recovered pieces of wood worked 10,500 years ago by Mesolithic hunter-gathere…
Read →In October 2026, the National Museum of the Eastern Carpathians announced the discovery of a female clay figurine roughly 6,500 years old, …
Read →On a small island in the Limfjord, north of Aalborg, Danish archaeologists have uncovered an 8,400-year-old deer antler axe preserved with …
Read →The recumbent slab at the heart of Stonehenge, long attributed to Wales, in fact comes from northeast Scotland. A 2024 study in Nature date…
Read →Beneath a mound in the Guadiana plain of Extremadura, archaeologists have uncovered the best preserved protohistoric building in the wester…
Read →From the valley of the Don to the shores of Lake Baikal, Upper Palaeolithic hunters left behind burials blanketed in tens of thousands of i…
Read →Austrian archaeologists announced in April 2026 the discovery of 32 gold and carnelian jewellery pieces on Kolona hill, Aegina. These 3,500…
Read →Spy, Scladina, Goyet: since 1886, the caves of the Meuse Valley have yielded fossils that shaped our knowledge of the Neanderthals. In 2026…
Read →In the Alentejo, a 16-hectare ditched complex built between 3400 and 2000 BCE reveals an inter-regional ceremonial centre: African ivory, S…
Read →A study published in <em>Nature</em> in June 2026 has overturned one of the most widely held hypotheses about Neanderthal extinction. The 2…
Read →Near Târgu Neamț, LiDAR-equipped drones pierced the canopy and unveiled Copper Age fortifications invisible from the ground: defensive ditc…
Read →In a cairn in northern Scotland, a woman's bones were shaped into points and edges, used, then carefully returned to their anatomical posit…
Read →At Vitry-sur-Seine, an Inrap excavation uncovers a rare Mesolithic camp preserved by the Seine's floods. A first window onto the last hunte…
Read →One hundred and twenty-four radiocarbon dates prove it: far from empty, the high Pyrenees have been visited without interruption since the …
Read →In Burgundy, the Grande Grotte of Arcy holds France's oldest still-visible paintings, 28,000 years old. Neanderthals then Cro-Magnons succe…
Read →The deformed skull of a prehistoric girl, unearthed in Spain, bears the mark of a rare malformation. That she lived to 8 or 10 suggests her…
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