1+ mon, 16+ hour ago  (318+ words) We might look at cave paintings and conclude that our prehistoric ancestors speared a bison or saber-toothed tiger and just hefted their carcasses into a fire. But new research suggests that our forbears had more varied and cosmopolitan tastes, centuries…...

4+ mon, 3+ day ago  (594+ words) It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames " cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our history, archaeologists think, early…...

6+ mon, 4+ day ago  (589+ words) Photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia music in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and the United States. Peru: Chicha Cumbia, the electric pulse of Lima This is part of a special series, Cumbia Across Latin America,…...

8+ mon, 5+ day ago  (882+ words) GOBEKLI TEPE, Turkey " Tour guide Sabahattin Alkan herds curious tourists through the scorching afternoon heat, luring them with the promise of something far stranger than your typical vacation snap. "Over here on the right, you see a spaceship landed recently,…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (430+ words) People who study Neanderthals have often wondered about nitrogen. You see, the more meat that an animal eats, the more the isotope nitrogen-15 shows up in its remains. And Neanderthals, who were believed to be omnivores, had nitrogen levels in…...