Ancestry Artifacts Cultures 
Anthropology.net
JANUARY 18, 2025
In the 8th century CE, the Avars—an enigmatic group with roots in the East Asian steppes—settled in Central Europe, weaving a tapestry of cultural cohesion amid genetic diversity. Their findings reveal an intriguing story of cultural integration despite distinct genetic divides.
Anthropology.net
APRIL 30, 2025
To ensure this wasn’t an artifact of sampling or contact with European languages, the team excluded creoles, mixed languages, and known colonial effects. The result was striking: languages in the Arctic and Subarctic regions averaged significantly more categories than those in the Amazon and Andes.
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Anthropology.net
APRIL 4, 2025
But beyond their everyday function of fastening and securing, knots hold something deeper: a story about the evolution of human cognition, the flow of culture, and the quiet persistence of shared technique across continents and millennia. Many knotted artifacts remain tucked away in storage, undocumented and undigitized.
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
The Engraved Stones of the Levant The researchers focused on five artifacts from four archaeological sites: Manot Cave, Amud Cave, Qafzeh Cave, and Quneitra. The artifacts themselves varied in form—two engraved Levallois cores, a flint plaquette, and two incised cortical flakes—but each bore markings that required closer scrutiny.
Anthropology.net
OCTOBER 8, 2024
The Oakhurst rock shelter, nestled in the cliffs of South Africa’s southern coast, has long been a focal point for archaeologists due to its wealth of artifacts and human remains. These findings offer a new perspective on human population stability and cultural evolution in southern Africa.
Anthropology.net
MARCH 6, 2024
These remarkable artifacts, unearthed at the Korolevo archaeological site, offer tantalizing clues about the migratory routes undertaken by early hominins as they ventured out of Africa and into the uncharted territories of Eurasia. 1 Garba, R., Ylä-Mella, L., Kameník, J., Stübner, K., Lachner, J., Veselovský, F.,
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Found in tombs scattered across the region, these delicately carved, hand-sized artifacts bear geometric designs whose purpose has sparked debate for centuries. Deciphering the Plaques: A History of Theories Since the 1800s, scholars have speculated about the meaning of these artifacts, numbering around 1,626 recovered to date.
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