Articles by

Bruce Bower

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...

Ancient DNA unveils disparate fates of Ice Age hunter-gatherers in Europe

Ice sheets expanded across much of northern Europe from around 25,000 to 19,000 years ago, making a...

Homo sapiens may have brought archery to Europe about 54,000 years ago

Homo sapiens who reached Europe around 54,000 years ago introduced bows and arrows to that continent, a...

Hominids used stone toolkits to butcher animals earlier than once thought

Nearly 3 million years ago, hominids employed stone toolkits to butcher hippos and pound plants along what’s...

Chemical residue reveals ancient Egyptians’ mummy-making mixtures

Scientists have unwrapped long-sought details of embalming practices that ancient Egyptians used to preserve dead bodies. Clues...