How Ancient Diets Shaped Our Brains
Early hominins may have bashed bones to harvest fatty nutrients from marrow and brains, creating a cerebral expansion that kickstarted evolution.
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Archaelogy
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How Climate Change Could Destroy Thousands of Archaeological Sites
Historical sites across the globe are at risk due to rising sea levels, but without reliable data we can't even assess the full scope of the problem, let alone solve it.
A History of What We Do in the Dark
Archaeologists investigate what life was like after dark in the ancient world and how the saturation of artificial light has changed our relationship with the night.
How We Discovered That Christopher Columbus Didn’t Get to America First
And why it doesn't really matter if he was 500 years too late.
The Sound of History: Mescaline, Music, and Terror
How the ancient priests of Peru’s Chavín de Huántar may have manipulated sound—and drugs—to manipulate their followers — and how we found out about it through the new field of "archaeoacoustics."