Articles by

Bruce Bower

Peru’s Serpent Mountain sheds its mysterious past

New evidence may resolve a longstanding archaeological puzzle in Peru. A vast line of thousands of holes...

Fossil hand bones point to tool use outside the Homo lineage

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own...

What Jane Goodall taught me about bones, loss and not wasting anything

Jane Goodall died on October 1 at the age of 91. When I heard the news, my...

The oldest known mummies have been found — in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asians created the oldest known human mummies roughly 7,000 years before Egyptian mummies debuted, researchers say....

Venice’s iconic winged lion statue originated in ancient China

Venice’s famous bronze statue of a winged lion, which stands atop a pedestal in St. Mark’s Square,...

Ancient hominids made long road trips to collect stone for tools

Starting at least 2.6 million years ago, East African toolmakers became tech-savvy road warriors. Those hominids, perhaps...

7 stone tools might rewrite the timeline of hominid migration in Indonesia 

Stone tools unearthed on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that ancient human relatives arrived there between...

‘Dragon Man’ skull may be the first from an enigmatic human cousin

Meet the new face, and braincase to boot, of Asia’s mysterious Stone Age denizens, the Denisovans. The...