Early hominins may have bashed bones to harvest fatty nutrients from marrow and brains, creating a cerebral expansion that kickstarted evolution.
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.
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.
And why it doesn't really matter if he was 500 years too late.
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."