The high Pyrenees, inhabited for 10,000 years
One hundred and twenty-four radiocarbon dates prove it: far from empty, the high Pyrenees have been visited without interruption since the early Holocene. A shelter…
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One hundred and twenty-four radiocarbon dates prove it: far from empty, the high Pyrenees have been visited without interruption since the early Holocene. A shelter…
Read →In Burgundy, the Grande Grotte of Arcy holds France's oldest still-visible paintings, 28,000 years old. Neanderthals then Cro-Magnons succeeded one another there. A…
Read →Fired nearly 2,800 years ago, jars stamped by the Kingdom of Judah froze the state of Earth's magnetic field into their clay. They reveal a spectacular anomaly, and give archaeologists a clock of unprecedented precision.
What if the Neanderthals' demise was due not only to climate or competition from Sapiens, but to a hidden flaw in their blood? A blood-group incompatibility may have undermined every pregnancy born of interbreeding.
Neanderthal dental tartar betrays an unexpected menu: insect larvae and eggs, eaten regularly. Their digestion could break down chitin, an ability lost in modern Europeans.
The deformed skull of a prehistoric girl, unearthed in Spain, bears the mark of a rare malformation. That she lived to 8 or 10 suggests her kin surrounded her with care, one of the oldest signs of empathy.
Read →At Jabal al-Tayr in Middle Egypt, a vast necropolis five millennia old reveals the evolution of funerary architect…
Read →A First Art team, with the Max Planck Institute, has recovered ancient human DNA straight from the walls of eleven…
Read →By sequencing DNA from 27 Neanderthals across ten caves in Belgium and France, a Max Planck team shows they formed…
Read →A re-examination of a 120,000-year-old fossil child reveals a mosaic of sapiens and Neanderthal traits, one more piece in the case for ancient, complex interbreeding.
Some sixty footprints fossilised in gypsum push back human arrival in North America by several millennia.
At this twin site of Göbekli Tepe, a monolith nearly 12,000 years old bears a sharply defined human face. Never seen before.
A University of York study published in Antiquity shows that Mohenjo-daro, the largest city of the Indus Civilisation, became more egalitarian as it prospered , challenging the assumption that economic growth inevitably widens i…
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