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2026-09-16 19:44:54 UTC

More than 2 million Indigenous people likely lived in Australia in 1788, over seven times the figure used for a century, and numbers fell by over 90 percent by 1861. #Archaeology #IndigenousAustralia #PopulationGenetics https://www.anthropology.net/p/australia-was-home-to-22-million

2026-09-04 13:30:46 UTC

A Bronze Age barrow in Suffolk sat empty for 2,000 years. Then Romans enclosed it, built a painted shrine beside it, and buried six pig skulls facing east. Nobody knows which god. #RomanBritain #Archaeology #BronzeAge https://www.anthropology.net/p/six-pig-skulls-facing-east-a-roman

2026-04-27 23:12:43 UTC

A new study drilled 26 sediment cores beneath an ancient Sudanese capital and found 12,500 years of Nile history. The geology explains why Napata, heart of the Kushite empire, lasted over a millennium. #Archaeology #AncientNubia #Kush https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-the-nile-built-at-jebel-barkal

2026-03-05 04:17:59 UTC

Charred residues on 6,000-year-old pottery are revealing prehistoric European “recipes” — guelder rose berries with fish, greens with cyprinids, tubers alongside dairy. Forager cuisine was more intentional than we thought. #Archaeology #Prehistory #HunterGatherers https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-was-actually-in-the-pot

2026-01-26 23:56:44 UTC

Two rare wooden tools from Greece, dated to 430,000 years ago, reveal a hidden side of early hominin technology. These fragile artifacts hint at a vanished world of organic tools that shaped daily life. #Paleoanthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Paleolithic @npub1awu…drv0 https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-tools-that-time-almost-erased

2025-12-08 18:52:11 UTC

New research overturns the myth of perfectly equal hunter-gatherers. Even the most “egalitarian” societies navigate inequality using subtle political tools that protect autonomy. Equality, it turns out, is hard-won. #Anthropology #HumanOrigins #Foragers #Inequality https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-equality-has-edges-rethinking

2025-10-31 02:33:55 UTC

A 70,000-year-old ochre “crayon” from Crimea reveals Neanderthals shaped pigments for symbolic marking, challenging assumptions about their minds and culture. These pigments hint at ritual, identity, and shared symbolic roots. #Paleolithic #Neanderthals #Anthropology #Evolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/crayons-of-the-pleistocene

2025-09-23 18:15:33 UTC

Charred adzuki beans from a 9,000-year-old site in China reveal a complex, multi-regional story of crop domestication in East Asia. Agriculture began as a network, not a single cradle. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Neolithic https://www.anthropology.net/p/seeds-of-change-how-a-small-red-bean

2025-08-31 00:22:51 UTC

Ancient DNA confirms Yersinia pestis caused the Justinian Plague—the first pandemic in history. Jerash’s Roman hippodrome became a mass grave, revealing a story that still resonates today. #Archaeology #AncientDNA #History #Pandemics https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-ghost-of-a-pandemic-unearthing