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EuropeNº 2026·097 September 2026The 'Vampire' Woman of Pień: Why Did a 17th-Century Town Fear This Teenage Girl?New study reveals a teenage girl buried with a sickle across her throat and a padlock locked around her big toe8 min read
Africa3 September 2026Copper from Everywhere, Tin from One Valley: What Metal Fingerprints Reveal About Iron Age Trade9 min read31 August 2026SupportersTea Break August: Skinning Tigers, Geometric Reed, and a Grim Collection of Human Bones12 min readBeyond Borders31 August 2026The Pelvic Problem: How Neanderthal Hips Challenge Why We Think Childbirth is so Difficult9 min readOceania28 August 2026Wearing Wallabies: Twelve Wallaby Teeth That Turned Out to Be Jewelry9 min read
Oceania27 August 2026Painting Giants: Why Did Australia's Rock Art Suddenly Get So Big in the 1800s?8 min readEurope25 August 2026Built on Small Backs: How Child Labour Left Its Mark on Dutch Skeletons7 min readAmericas24 August 2026Monte Verde, Revisited (Again): What the Rebuttals Say10 min readAsia20 August 2026Mysterious Meaning: Eleven New Incised Arrowheads Found at Tepecik-Çiftlik7 min readEurope18 August 2026Necklace of the Dead: Archaeologists Discover a Neolithic Pendant, and It Was Made From a Human Tooth7 min readBeyond Borders17 August 2026Bird Brained: How Scientists Proved the Dodo Was Never That Dumb7 min readAsia14 August 2026The Brass Gap: How Ancient Crucibles Filled a 600-Year Historical Gap7 min readEurope12 August 2026The Bones Everyone Ignored: How Tiny Fragments Revealed Neanderthal Bone Tools in Romania7 min readEurope12 August 2026Left in the Arctic: How an Abandoned Fossil Turned Out to Be a Giant Predator7 min readAmericas7 August 2026Ancient Ornaments, Ancient Routes: What Two Shell Beads Reveal About ​California’s Deep Past8 min readEurope6 August 2026The Mystery of Brading Roman Villa: Evidence of a Late Roman Massacre?7 min readAmericas3 August 2026The Lost Civilizations of the Amazon: Did Millions of People Once Live in the Amazon Rainforest?8 min readEurope30 July 2026Buried in a Toilet: The Two Byzantine Babies That Ended Up in a Latrine Drain8 min readAfrica29 July 2026Divine Light: What do an Ibis, Baboon and the God of the Moon Have in Common?7 min readOceania25 July 2026Why did the Polynesians Stop Sailing For Over 1000 Years?7 min read