Anthropology.netChicken 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 https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-bones-that-looked-like-pheasants
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 https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-the-bear-teeth-were-hiding-zooms
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 https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-two-lives-of-a-wari-dog
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 https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-smallest-prey-at-the-lake
#Neanderthals #Paleoanthropology #Zooarchaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-smallest-prey-at-the-lake
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
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 https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-lehringen-spear-revisited
The Lehringen Spear, Revisited
New analysis of a 125,000-year-old Neanderthal site in Germany settles old doubts about elephant hunting and reveals a far more versatile predator than the record suggested
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 https://www.anthropology.net/p/before-the-first-harvest-ancient
Before the First Harvest: Ancient DNA and the Paleolithic Dogs of Europe
Two companion studies push the genetic record of domestic dogs back nearly 5,000 years, revealing a population that spread across genetically distinct human cultures before farming existed
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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: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/deer-skull-headdress-discovered-in-germany/
#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #zooarchaeology #anthropology #neolithic
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: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/elephant-bone-found-in-spain-the-punic-wars/
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 https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-site-that-stopped-working-bison
