DNA Reveals Near-Total Replacement of Western Europe's Megalith Builders
Ancient DNA analyses of hundreds of skeletons confirm that the populations who built Stonehenge, Carnac, and the Irish dolmens were replaced by up to 90% by steppe …
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From 3 million years ago to the dawn of our era: archaeological discoveries, palaeogenetics, cave art and the great transformations of human societies.
Ancient DNA analyses of hundreds of skeletons confirm that the populations who built Stonehenge, Carnac, and the Irish dolmens were replaced by up to 90% by steppe …
Read →A systematic spatial analysis of decorated sites in the Basque Country and Cantabria shows that Palaeolithic artists deliberately organized their compositions accor…
Read →A Levantine skull dating to approximately 100,000 years ago displays a penetrating lesion on the facial bones interpreted as intentional interpersonal violence, pushing far back in time the earliest direct evidence of conflict in our species.
Discovered by chance in the tin mines of the Jos Plateau in Nigeria, Nok sculptures dated between the 9th century BC and the 2nd century AD constitute the oldest known sculptural tradition in sub-Saharan Africa. Their discovery, initiated by archaeologist Bernard Fagg in 1943, profoundly transformed our understanding of ancient African societies.
Excavations at Karain Cave reveal that two human species shared the same Anatolian territories for millennia, redrawing the map of their coexistence at the crossroads of Europe and the Near East.
Mesolithic European hunter-gatherers had dark skin despite tens of thousands of years on the continent. Ancient DNA from specimens such as La Brana (Spain) and Loschbour (Luxembourg) confirms it: light skin spread through Europe …
Read →A study published in Science on July 30, 2026 reveals that the human genome contains DNA from unknown hominin line…
Read →Discovered in 2012 in the Woranso-Mille area of the Afar region, the Burtele fossil foot dates to 3.4 million year…
Read →Off the island of Sein in Finistere, archaeologists have uncovered several alignments of submerged granite blocks …
Read →Carbonised wooden beams dating to the Babylonian conquest of 586 BCE have been discovered in the City of David. Paradoxically preserved by the very fire that destroyed them, they could transform the dating of the end of the First Temple period.
A genomic study published in Science Advances reveals the existence, 6,000 years ago on the Bogota altiplano, of an unknown prehistoric population -- genetically unrelated to any known Native American group -- that disappeared from the genetic record 2,000 years ago.
The San Juan ante Portam Latinam (SJAPL) site in Laguardia, Spain, contained the remains of 338 individuals, 23% of whom show perimortem trauma. A study published in Scientific Reports combining palaeogenomics and physical anthropology reveals the dynamics of this Neolithic massacre that occurred around 3,200 BCE in the Ebro valley.
A granite pebble bearing a red ochre stain and a complete fingerprint, attributed to a Neanderthal individual, has been unearthed at the San Lazaro rock shelter near Segovia, Spain. Dated to 43,000 years ago, the find renews deba…
Read →Near East prehistorians have long known about the plaster-coated skulls of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. An experimen…
Read →In the Liang Tebo cave in eastern Borneo, the remains of an individual who died 31,000 years ago reveal that their…
Read →Small spouted ceramic vessels found in children's graves in Bavaria and dated from 1200 to 450 BCE contain residue…
Read →The collective ossuary of Camino del Molino in Murcia, Spain, reveals that nearly 92% of children buried there 5,000 years ago showed bone lesions characteristic of infectious diseases and malnutrition. A study in the Internation…
Read →In the necropolis of Djarkutan, Uzbekistan, archaeologists have identified the skull of a child approximately 5 ye…
Read →At the Middle Pleistocene site of Bilzingsleben in Thuringia, Germany, researchers have identified the remains of …
Read →Fish remains from Acheulean layers at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel, bear unmistakable signs of controlled low-temp…
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