Underwater caves yield new clues about Sicily’s first residents
How and when did people first come to Sicily? Scientists exploring coastal and underwater caves discover clues about Sicily's first settlers.
Found in a cave in Indonesia, we can now show the world’s oldest figurative art is 51,200 years old
Researchers find the world's oldest figurative art in a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Using a novel dating technique, they dated the painting to 51,200 years old.
Archaeologists find the oldest-known shell beads
Shell beads found in a cave in Morocco are at least 142,000 years old. The archaeologists who found them say they're the earliest-known evidence of a widespread form of human communication.
Naturally perforated shells one of the earliest adornments in the Middle Paleolithic
Ancient humans deliberately collected perforated shells in order to string them together as beads, according to a study supported in part by The Leakey Foundation and published July 8, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.
Down Ancient Trails
Leakey Foundation grantee Shanti Pappu and her colleagues are hosting free online lectures on archaeology and human evolution. Many of the featured speakers are Leakey Foundation grantees.