The Pleistocene megafauna extinctions: hunting, climate, or both?
Between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, dozens of giant species vanished from the planet. Mammoths, cave lions, megatheria: this great collaps…
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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.
Between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, dozens of giant species vanished from the planet. Mammoths, cave lions, megatheria: this great collaps…
Read →Discovered in 1936 in a First Dynasty mastaba at Saqqara, thé trilobate grey schist Sabu Disk remains one of ancient Egypt's most enigmatic…
Read →Récent research pushes back human occupation of thé Grand Canyon to more than 12,000 years, from Clovis hunters to Ancestral Puebloan villa…
Read →At Héliopolis, thé spiritual heart of ancient Egypt now engulfed by Cairo, Egyptian archaeologists have discovered thé relief-decorated tom…
Read →In thé Nile Delta, thé Tell Kom Aziza site has yielded an exceptionally well-preserved Greco-Roman cemetery, with mummies adorned with pain…
Read →A giant skull from China, a mandible from thé Tibetan plateau, and a novel epigenetic method: how scientists reconstructed thé face of our …
Read →How Homo erectus's mastery of fire created sélection pressure on human skin, favoring reduced body haïr, eccrine sweat glands, and melanin …
Read →Bird bones bearing cut marks and heat traces reveal that Neanderthals hunted and cooked birds using elaborate Mousterian techniques -- and …
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