Woolly mammoths: DNA proves prehistoric hunters targeted females
A study in Current Biology analyses the DNA of 521 woolly mammoths and reveals that human butchery sites contain 70% females, versus 66% ma…
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A study in Current Biology analyses the DNA of 521 woolly mammoths and reveals that human butchery sites contain 70% females, versus 66% ma…
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 →A new study in PLOS ONE redates the mammoth ivory boomerang from Oblazowa Cave, Poland, to between 39,000 and 42,000 years ago, making it t…
Read →A Tubingen team has discovered two miniature mammoth ivory bird figurines in Hohle Fels Cave in the German Swabian Jura. Dated to 40,000 ye…
Read →University of Tubingen archaeologists have presented two 2cm bird figurines carved in mammoth ivory, dated to the Aurignacian (40,000 years…
Read →A systematic spatial analysis of decorated sites in the Basque Country and Cantabria shows that Palaeolithic artists deliberately organized…
Read →A Levantine skull dating to approximately 100,000 years ago displays a penetrating lesion on the facial bones interpreted as intentional in…
Read →Excavations at Gran Dolina cave in Atapuerca have uncovered a bone from a two-to-four-year-old child bearing a butchery cut mark. Direct ev…
Read →A CNRS team has succeeded in directly radiocarbon-dating Palaeolithic paintings in Font-de-Gaume cave, Dordogne. A bison has been placed at…
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 →A First Art team, with the Max Planck Institute, has recovered ancient human DNA straight from the walls of eleven caves in Spain and Portu…
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