2025 Artifacts Tradition 
Anthropology.net
MARCH 14, 2025
Traditionally, scholars have debated linguistic origins based on indirect clues—symbolic artifacts, brain size, or the complexity of tool-making. Yet, despite its central role in human evolution, determining when and how language first emerged remains a challenge. 1 Miyagawa, S., DeSalle, R., Nóbrega, V. Nitschke, R.,
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Recent analysis of artifacts from two Lusatian Culture cemeteries suggests that early metallurgists were not only working with iron from terrestrial sources but also incorporating metal from ataxite meteorites—an extremely rare form of nickel-rich iron that originates in space. Pin fragment (E) from Częstochowa-Mirów (4).
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Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
To correct this, the team organized a workshop where archaeologists directly examined artifacts from both traditions side by side. 7, 8) Core with two opposing faces with parallel detachments This fundamental difference in technique suggests that these groups did not learn from one another or share a common cultural tradition.
Anthropology.net
JANUARY 17, 2025
Unlike its predecessor, the Oldowan tradition, which focused on basic percussive technologies, the Acheulian period is marked by a broader use of advanced tools such as handaxes and cleavers. Emerging from the earlier Oldowan tradition around 1.75 The Acheulian culture, which emerged around 1.75 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161322
Anthropology.net
JANUARY 27, 2025
Mapping Myths and Movements Mythological Motifs as Cultural DNA At the heart of this study is the database of Yuri Berezkin, which catalogs the presence or absence of 2,138 "mythemes"—core narrative motifs—across 926 traditions worldwide. Read more 1 Delbrassine, H., Mezzavilla, M., Vallini, L., Berezkin, Y., Bortolini, E.,
Anthropology.net
APRIL 29, 2025
Journal of Quaternary Science (2025) A new study in the Journal of Quaternary Science 1 suggests that at least one band of Late Upper Paleolithic foragers made their way to the windswept tip of the Isle of Skye, a place so remote it has long been considered beyond the reach of early postglacial settlement. Hardy et al., Hardy et al.,
Anthropology.net
MARCH 5, 2025
The team behind the discovery, led by Ignacio de la Torre, Luc Doyon, and Francesco d’Errico, argues that these tools represent a distinct technological tradition, not just an opportunistic or accidental use of bones. Nature (2025). ” The implications of this are profound. 1 de la Torre, I., Benito-Calvo, A.
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