Our Best Friend for 16,000 Years: Ancient DNA Pushes Back the Origin of the Domestic Dog
A study published in Nature in 2026 has identified domestic dogs 15,800 years old in Anatolia and 14,300 years old in Britain, pushing back…
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A study published in Nature in 2026 has identified domestic dogs 15,800 years old in Anatolia and 14,300 years old in Britain, pushing back…
Read →A study published in <em>Nature</em> in June 2026 has overturned one of the most widely held hypotheses about Neanderthal extinction. The 2…
Read →Austrian archaeologists announced in April 2026 the discovery of 32 gold and carnelian jewellery pieces on Kolona hill, Aegina. These 3,500…
Read →Near Târgu Neamț, LiDAR-equipped drones pierced the canopy and unveiled Copper Age fortifications invisible from the ground: defensive ditc…
Read →In a cairn in northern Scotland, a woman's bones were shaped into points and edges, used, then carefully returned to their anatomical posit…
Read →At Vitry-sur-Seine, an Inrap excavation uncovers a rare Mesolithic camp preserved by the Seine's floods. A first window onto the last hunte…
Read →One hundred and twenty-four radiocarbon dates prove it: far from empty, the high Pyrenees have been visited without interruption since the …
Read →In Burgundy, the Grande Grotte of Arcy holds France's oldest still-visible paintings, 28,000 years old. Neanderthals then Cro-Magnons succe…
Read →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…
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