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Kilwa Kisiwani is an island off Tanzania’s southern coast where a medieval port civilization once traded gold, cloth, and Chinese porcelain across the Indian Ocean. Between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, it was on
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The scissors are 123mm long. So are the tweezers. Both are iron, nearly pure iron, the kind that only a mature smelting industry can reliably produce. They were buried sometime around the early fifteenth century with a m
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Somewhere beneath the floors of a Bronze Age harbor city on Cyprus, excavators found the bones of pigeons. Not one or two. Dozens. Many were burned, consistent with cooking or deliberate disposal after a meal. Some belon
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In the oldest levels of a neighborhood called DK-G South, the houses are large. The largest date to around 2500 BC and cover more than 160 square meters of floor plan. This isn’t surprising for a Bronze Age city. What’s
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Jar 1 at Site 75 sat in forest roughly 70 kilometers northeast of Phonsavan, on the Xieng Khouang Plateau in northern Laos. It was already in poor condition when researchers found it: the sides partially collapsed, the i
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Somewhere in the Altai Mountains roughly 59,000 years ago, a Homo neanderthalensis sat still while someone drilled into their tooth with a pointed piece of jasper. We know this because the tooth survived. It came out of
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A tooth recovered from Zhoukoudian cave near Beijing in the early 1950s has been sitting in storage for decades. It belongs to a Homo erectus individual who died roughly 420,000 years ago, during a period when the world
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When T. Whitworth described a set of human cranial fragments from Turkana, Kenya, in 1960, he found himself stuck. The skull was thick-walled. The forehead sloped. The mandible was heavy-built in a way that recalled olde
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The mound at Baraleti sits near the center of the Javakheti Plateau, and its name tells you something right away. Natsargora means “hill of ashes.” Not a metaphor. When excavations began in 2023, researchers from the Sam
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Somewhere around 4,000 BC, people living at a promontory above the Sitna river in what is now northeastern Romania built something that didn’t fit. Their settlement had roughly 45 houses, each between 70 and 120 square m
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The petrous bone is not beautiful. It is a dense, pyramidal wedge buried in the base of the skull, housing the cochlea and semicircular canals, its name taken from the Latin petrosus, meaning rock-like. It weighs almost
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Somewhere between 1665 and 1680, a man was buried at the hip with a clay pipe. Traces of soot were still lodged in the bowl. The pipe maker’s stamp on the heel showed a crowned rose and the monogram RW, later traced to R
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Somewhere around 3600 BC, a man was laid to rest in a stone-walled tomb beside Loch Calder, in what is now the far north of mainland Scotland. Later, his son was placed there too. Then, some years after that, his son’s s
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There’s a specific kind of power that lives in restricted space. The Classic Maya k’uhul ajaw — the divine king — expressed his authority partly through enclosure. His palace at the center of the city was internally segm
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The Sama people of the Philippines spend their lives on or near the ocean, and much of their foraging happens underwater. Over generations, something measurable shifted in their biology: their spleens got bigger. The spl
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In 1948, a small team of amateur excavators working a marl quarry near the village of Lehringen in Lower Saxony pulled a wooden spear from sediments laid down during the last interglacial. It was 2.38 meters long, made f
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When French Catholic missionaries arrived in the Mangareva Islands in 1834, they came with tools, building expertise, and an agenda. Within a few years, the frères bâtisseurs — lay builder-brothers attached to the missio
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In 902 CE, a fleet dispatched by the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba arrived at Ibiza. The island was barely inhabited. Contemporary Andalusi writers rarely mentioned it at all. Whatever pre-conquest population existed had ei
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The bone fragment pulled from Denisova Cave is 2.5 centimeters long. It was dug out of Layer 12 of the East Chamber, a vaulted space in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia where the light changes color in the afterno
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The caves of Ice Age Europe were not quiet places. People lived in them, killed animals inside them, made art on their walls, and sometimes processed their dead in them. At Gough’s Cave in Somerset, around 14,300 years a
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