Articles by

Bruce Bower

A lion’s bite marks a fatal fight with a possible Roman-era gladiator

As a fight to the death reached its end around 1,800 years ago, a victorious lion sank...

Ancient horse hunts challenge ideas of ‘modern’ human behavior

On a bright, late-summer day in north-central Europe around 300,000 years ago, a team of perhaps a...

Denisovans inhabited Taiwan, new fossil evidence suggests

A fossil jaw originally netted by fishermen off the ocean floor near Taiwan’s west coast belonged to...

Ancient Arabian cymbals ring up Bronze Age musical connections

Ritually important musical practices resounded across Bronze Age cultures from Arabia to South Asia, a pair of...

Neandertal-like tools found in China present a mystery

Stone tools traditionally attributed to European and western Asian Neandertals have turned up nearly a continent away...

Western Europe’s oldest face adds new wrinkles to human evolution

A Spanish cave has divulged the oldest known fossil remains of human ancestors in Western Europe. Excavations...

Human ancestors made the oldest known bone tools 1.5 million years ago

Ancient human relatives crafted sharp-edged tools out of animal bones around 1.5 million years ago, researchers say....

Humans moved into African rainforests at least 150,000 years ago

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago....