Articles by

Bruce Bower

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...

Precolonial farmers thrived in one of North America’s coldest places

A laser eye-in-the-sky has uncovered vast, ancient farm fields in an unlikely place — the frosty forests...

Males of this ancient human cousin weren’t always bigger than females

An ancient, distant human cousin from southern Africa called Paranthropus robustus has for the first time revealed...

Humans used whale bones to make tools 20,000 years ago

Western Europeans crafted hunting weapons out of bones from whales stranded on the Atlantic shoreline between 20,000...

Neandertals may have hunted in horse-trapping teams 200,000 years ago

Neandertals formed sophisticated hunting parties that drove wild horses into fatal traps around 200,000 years ago. At...

British tin might have fueled the rise of some Bronze Age civilizations

Where Bronze Age civilizations got large amounts of tin, a scarce metal, to mix with copper into...

A Pueblo tribe recruited scientists to reclaim its ancient American history

Members of New Mexico’s Picuris Pueblo Tribal Nation have long told stories about having descended from ancient...