Articles by

Bruce Bower

How ancient herders rewrote northern Europeans’ genetic story

Ancient herders, who rode horses and drove ox-drawn carts west out of their grassy homelands in southwest...

Ancient Maya power brokers lived in neighborhoods, not just palaces

Pots with fancifully molded eyes, noses and mouths were one of the tip-offs. Adrian Chase already had...

A mysterious ancient grave with a sword and mirror belonged to a woman

A roughly 2,000-year-old woman with a potentially violent streak has emerged from skeletal rubble found on...

Surprisingly long-lived wild female chimps go through menopause

Female chimps living in an East African forest experience menopause and then survive years, even decades, after...

What did Homo sapiens eat 170,000 years ago? Roasted, supersized land snails

Slow-motion large land snails made for easy catching and good eating as early as 170,000 years ago....

Native Americans corralled Spanish horses decades before Europeans arrived

Indigenous knowledge and Western science have written a new tale about when horses most recently arrived in...

A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Paleo diet: rotten meat

In a book about his travels in Africa published in 1907, British explorer Arnold Henry Savage Landor...

Some monkeys accidentally make stone flakes that resemble ancient hominid tools

Monkeys in southern Thailand use rocks to pound open oil palm nuts, inadvertently shattering stone pieces off...