80,000-year-old projectile points discovered in Uzbekistan
Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known hafted projectile points in Central Asia at Kulbulak cave in Uzbekistan, dating to 80,000 ye…
Read →Prehistory news
From 3 million years ago to the dawn of our era: archaeological discoveries, palaeogenetics, cave art and the great transformations of human societies.
Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known hafted projectile points in Central Asia at Kulbulak cave in Uzbekistan, dating to 80,000 ye…
Read →Excavations in Burgos province have revealed an exceptional Neanderthal camp dating to 55,000 to 70,000 years ago: organised hearths, hunte…
Read →In El Sidron cave (Asturias, Spain), thé remains of 13 Neanderthals dating to 49,000 years ago have revealed secrets of their social organi…
Read →Négative hand stencils in Maltravieso cave (Spain) have been dated to over 66,000 years ago - long before Homo sapiens arrived in Europe. T…
Read →Discovered in 1924 at the Abri des Merveilles in the Dordogne, a translucent scraper knapped from rock crystal challenged as early as 1931 …
Read →In the Zagros Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, renewed excavations at Shanidar Cave by the University of Cambridge have uncovered the remains …
Read →A study led by Julie Dabkowski (CNRS) reconstructs thé environment at Caours (Somme) 123,000 years ago: a dense temperate forest populated …
Read →Excavations at Karain Cave reveal that two human species shared the same Anatolian territories for millennia, redrawing the map of their co…
Read →A study published in Science on July 30, 2026 reveals that the human genome contains DNA from unknown hominin lineages, transmitted before …
Read →A granite pebble bearing a red ochre stain and a complete fingerprint, attributed to a Neanderthal individual, has been unearthed at thé Sa…
Read →Microscopic grooves on fossil hominin and non-human primate teeth reveal an unexpected practice: mutual tooth cleaning, a social bonding be…
Read →Bird bones bearing cut marks and heat traces reveal that Neanderthals hunted and cooked birds using elaborate Mousterian techniques -- and …
Read →At 6 months old, Neanderthal infant Amud 7 was already the size of a 13-month-old modern human. A 2026 study in Current Biology reveals a g…
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 →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-grou…
Read →Neanderthal dental tartar betrays an unexpected menu: insect larvae and eggs, eaten regularly. Their digestion could break down chitin, an …
Read →By sequencing DNA from 27 Neanderthals across ten caves in Belgium and France, a Max Planck team shows they formed a well-connected regiona…
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 anci…
Read →