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  1. Cut marks on 1.6-million-year-old leg bones from Koobi Fora reveal early Homo was selectively transporting and intensively processing carcasses — a consistent strategy sustained across half a million years of shifting environments. #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution #Zooarchaeology anthropology.net/p/what-16-mil

  2. Neanderthals used rhinoceros teeth as tools for making stone implements, study finds

    Neanderthals did more with hunted animals than eat their meat. A new study suggests they kept and reused…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Humanevolution #Neanderthals #Zooarchaeology
    newsbeep.com/us/634504/

  3. Neanderthals used rhinoceros teeth as tools for making stone implements, study finds

    Neanderthals did more with hunted animals than eat their meat. A new study suggests they kept and reused…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Humanevolution #Neanderthals #Zooarchaeology
    newsbeep.com/us/634504/

  4. Neanderthals used rhinoceros teeth as tools for making stone implements, study finds

    Neanderthals did more with hunted animals than eat their meat. A new study suggests they kept and reused…
    #NewsBeep #News #Science #GB #humanevolution #Neanderthals #UK #UnitedKingdom #Zooarchaeology
    newsbeep.com/uk/576164/

  5. Classic Maya dogs were imported from 500-800km away and fed richer corn-and-meat diets than many humans. New isotope research traces their origins across the Maya world. #Archaeology #MayaHistory #Zooarchaeology anthropology.net/p/dogs-from-d

  6. 7,000-year-old beaver bone pit discovered in Germany reveals Neolithic fur hunting practices

    Archaeologists in central Germany have uncovered an unusual 7,000-year-old pit packed with beaver bones, offering a rare look…
    #Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Hunter-gatherers #Neolithic #Zooarchaeology
    europesays.com/germany/9161/

  7. Chicken vs. pheasant — the bones look nearly identical. ZooMS molecular analysis just confirmed domestic chickens were raised on the Korean Peninsula 2,000 years ago, filling a key gap in East Asian dispersal history. #Zooarchaeology #AncientDNA #KoreanArchaeology anthropology.net/p/the-bones-t

  8. Chicken vs. pheasant — the bones look nearly identical. ZooMS molecular analysis just confirmed domestic chickens were raised on the Korean Peninsula 2,000 years ago, filling a key gap in East Asian dispersal history. #Zooarchaeology #AncientDNA #KoreanArchaeology anthropology.net/p/the-bones-t

  9. Chicken vs. pheasant — the bones look nearly identical. ZooMS molecular analysis just confirmed domestic chickens were raised on the Korean Peninsula 2,000 years ago, filling a key gap in East Asian dispersal history. #Zooarchaeology #AncientDNA #KoreanArchaeology anthropology.net/p/the-bones-t

  10. Chicken vs. pheasant — the bones look nearly identical. ZooMS molecular analysis just confirmed domestic chickens were raised on the Korean Peninsula 2,000 years ago, filling a key gap in East Asian dispersal history. #Zooarchaeology #AncientDNA #KoreanArchaeology anthropology.net/p/the-bones-t

  11. Chicken vs. pheasant — the bones look nearly identical. ZooMS molecular analysis just confirmed domestic chickens were raised on the Korean Peninsula 2,000 years ago, filling a key gap in East Asian dispersal history. #Zooarchaeology #AncientDNA #KoreanArchaeology anthropology.net/p/the-bones-t

  12. Cave bears dominated bone counts at a Galician Paleolithic cave, but ZooMS shows they mostly denned and died there. Horse was a major prey animal. Collagen told a different story. #Paleoanthropology #Zooarchaeology #Neanderthals anthropology.net/p/what-the-be

  13. New research into the Wari Empire’s elite burials at Castillo de Huarmey reveals the distinct, pampered lives of the first-known Peruvian Hairless Dogs. They weren’t just pets; they were status symbols. #Archaeology #WariEmpire #Zooarchaeology anthropology.net/p/the-two-liv

  14. Neanderthals at a German lakeside site 125,000 years ago carefully cleaned pond turtle shells—possibly for use as containers. First evidence of turtle exploitation north of the Alps, published in Scientific Reports.
    #Neanderthals #Paleoanthropology #Zooarchaeology anthropology.net/p/the-smalles

  15. A small island off northern Fiji is made almost entirely of ancient shellfish remains — possibly built by centuries of human refuse, meal by discarded meal. New research asks: midden or tsunami deposit? #Archaeology #PacificIslands #Zooarchaeologyhttps://www.anthropology.net/p/an-island-built-from-dinner

  16. New zooarchaeological analysis of the 125,000-year-old Lehringen site confirms Neanderthals hunted a straight-tusked elephant with a wooden spear and butchered bear, beaver, and aurochs at the same lakeshore. #Neanderthals #Paleoanthropology #Zooarchaeology anthropology.net/p/the-lehring

  17. Ancient DNA from Britain & Turkey confirms dogs were widespread across Ice Age Europe by 15,800 years ago — genetically similar across three distinct human cultures long before farming existed. What do we actually know about the first dogs? #Palaeogenomics #Zooarchaeology #HumanEvolution #Dogs anthropology.net/p/before-the-

  18. Ancient DNA from Britain & Turkey confirms dogs were widespread across Ice Age Europe by 15,800 years ago — genetically similar across three distinct human cultures long before farming existed. What do we actually know about the first dogs? #Palaeogenomics #Zooarchaeology #HumanEvolution #Dogs anthropology.net/p/before-the-

  19. Ancient DNA from Britain & Turkey confirms dogs were widespread across Ice Age Europe by 15,800 years ago — genetically similar across three distinct human cultures long before farming existed. What do we actually know about the first dogs? #Palaeogenomics #Zooarchaeology #HumanEvolution #Dogs anthropology.net/p/before-the-

  20. Ancient DNA from Britain & Turkey confirms dogs were widespread across Ice Age Europe by 15,800 years ago — genetically similar across three distinct human cultures long before farming existed. What do we actually know about the first dogs? #Palaeogenomics #Zooarchaeology #HumanEvolution #Dogs anthropology.net/p/before-the-

  21. Ancient DNA from Britain & Turkey confirms dogs were widespread across Ice Age Europe by 15,800 years ago — genetically similar across three distinct human cultures long before farming existed. What do we actually know about the first dogs? #Palaeogenomics #Zooarchaeology #HumanEvolution #Dogs anthropology.net/p/before-the-

  22. Rare deer skull headdress discovered in Germany highlights exchange between hunter-gatherers and Europe’s first farmers

    Archaeologists working at the Early Neolithic settlement of Eilsleben in Saxony-Anhalt have uncovered evidence of close contact between Europe’s first farming communities and local hunter-gatherers...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/02/dee

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    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #zooarchaeology #anthropology #neolithic

  23. Elephant bone found in Spain provides rare evidence of war elephants during the Punic Wars

    Archaeologists in southern Spain have reported rare physical evidence linked with elephants used during the Punic Wars. A single elephant bone recovered at the Colina de los Quemados site in Córdoba offers direct archaeological support for ancient written accounts describing elephants within Carthaginian armies...

    More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/02/ele

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    #archaeology #zooarchaeology #punicwars

  24. Why did bison hunters abandon a Montana kill site after 700 years? Not prey scarcity—severe droughts converged with shifts toward large-scale communal hunting, making small sites obsolete. #archaeology #climateadaptation #bison #zooarchaeology #anthropology #montana anthropology.net/p/the-site-th

  25. Study finds dog meat was consumed at Iron Age feasts in ancient Bulgaria

    Archaeologists studying animal bones from Iron Age settlements in Bulgaria have found strong evidence for dog consumption between the fifth and first centuries BCE. Cut marks, burning traces, and repeated butchery patterns appear on canine bones from multiple sites...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/01/dog

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    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #zooarchaeology #ironage

  26. Iron Age Iberians did not just sacrifice horses. They gathered them from across the Guadiana basin, raised them with care, and killed them in a final ritual that closed a monumental building forever. Teeth tell the story. #Archaeology #IronAge #Zooarchaeology #AncientNetworks anthropology.net/p/the-last-ri

  27. Study shows ancient Puebloans housed macaws and parrots in great houses for ceremonial use

    A study that puts into perspective the role of macaws and parrots in the social and ceremonial life of ancient Pueblo communities at Chaco Canyon, one of the most important archaeological landscapes in the U.S. Southwest...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/12/anc

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    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #pueblo #zooarchaeology #macaws #chacocanyon #chacoan

  28. A 4,000-year-old sheep may reveal how the Bronze Age plague spread across Eurasia

    The plague moved through Europe during the medieval period with devastating speed, causing millions of deaths as fleas spread Yersinia pestis from rodents to humans. However, long before that catastrophe, a different plague circulated across Eurasia during the Bronze Age...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/12/a-4

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    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #zooarchaeology #plague #bronzeage

  29. Macaws did not merely pass through Chaco Canyon. New analysis shows they lived for decades inside great houses, carefully housed in plastered rooms for ceremonial life. Feathers, architecture, and care converged. #Archaeology #ChacoCanyon #Zooarchaeology #Pueblo anthropology.net/p/feathers-in

  30. 🔥New paper out now in Journal of Human Evolution🔥

    Grăunceanu (Romania) with an estimated age >1.95 Ma is not an archaeological site!

    A new study by the MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre (LEIZA), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Leiden University has refuted the evidence of human activity in the form of cut marks on animal bones.
    @paleomonrepos
    #Archaeology #Research #taphonomy #zooarchaeology #archeology #animalbones

    Read now 👇
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

  31. Oldest mule in western Europe found in an Iron Age Iberian burial site, revealing equid hybridization

    What is now considered the earliest mule known from the western Mediterranean and continental Europe was identified by researchers at the Iron Age site of Hort d’en Grimau in the Penedès region of northeastern Iberia...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/12/old

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    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #Iberia #mules #zooarchaeology #ironage

  32. 5,500-year-old wildcat found in Glencurran Cave rewrites Ireland’s prehistoric wildlife history

    A new archaeological and genetic study has furnished the earliest direct evidence that European wildcats once roamed prehistoric Ireland. Researchers have identified wildcat remains from Glencurran Cave in the Burren, County Clare, dating to roughly 3600 BCE...

    More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/550

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    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #wildcats #prehistory #zooarchaeology

  33. New study from Abrigo de la Malia shows early Homo sapiens hunted deer, horses, and bison in Iberia’s interior 36k years ago—challenging the idea of an “empty” plateau. #Paleoarchaeology #HumanEvolution #Iberia #Zooarchaeology #anthropology anthropology.net/p/hunters-of-

  34. Rare sperm whale tooth unearthed at Valencina Copper Age megasite reveals ancient Iberian coastal connections

    Archaeologists uncovered a rare sperm whale tooth during a 2018 excavation at the Nueva Biblioteca site—the first ever found in Late Prehistoric Iberia. Dating to between 5,300 and 4,150 years ago, the half-kilogram tooth was recovered from a non-burial pit...

    More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/06/rar

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    #archaeology #zooarchaeology #CopperAge