Bone tools excavated from Castel di Guido in Italy. Credit: Villa et al. 2021 PLOS ONE Ancient humans could do some impressive things with elephant…
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This image shows a bone tool from Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco that was used for leather working 120,000 to 90,000 years ago. Credit: Jacopo Niccolò Cerasoni…
Archaic sequence length decay (black bands on chromosomes) for different populations sampled at multiple time points. The length of generation intervals (GI) is represented by…
Neolithic agriculturalists. Credit: Illustration by L.P. Repiso A new investigation of stone tools buried in graves provides evidence supporting the existence of a division of…
Painted pottery vessels for serving drinks and food. Credit: Image by Jiajing Wang Pottery vessels which had contained beer, found with human remains in platform…
The Leang Panninge cave on the southern peninsula of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Credit: Leang Panninge Research Project International research team isolates DNADNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is…
Researchers have known from several lines of evidence that the ancient hominins known as the Denisovans interbred with modern humans in the distant past. Now…
The flake was struck from the core in a much earlier stage of the “biography” of the core, when it was significantly larger. Other flakes…
Overview of population dynamical history at the crossroads of East and Southeast Asia since 11,000 years ago. Credit: IVPP A joint research team led by…
Flowstone formation in the Sala de las Estrellas at Cueva de Ardales (Malaga, Andalusia), with the traces of red pigment analyzed and discussed in the…
The mummified sheep leg from which DNA was obtained. Image courtesy of Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum and Zanjan Cultural Heritage Centre, Archaeological Museum of Zanjan. Credit:…
A massive volcanic eruption in Indonesia about 74,000 years ago likely caused severe climate disruption in many areas of the globe, but early human populations…
Moai statuary on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York suggests that the demographic collapse at the core…
Landscape views of scatters of qubbas around the Jebel Maman. Credit: Stefano Costanzo (CC-BY 4.0) Statistical methods designed for cosmology reveal tomb distribution in Sudan…
Artist’s impression of a Squalicorax shark. Credit: Dimitri Bogdanov Scientists have found an unexplained cache of fossilized shark teeth in an area where there should…
New Fossil Discovery of a Distinct, Ancient Human Species Points to Complicated Evolutionary Process
New Fossil Discovery of a Distinct, Ancient Human Species Points to Complicated Evolutionary Process
Static skull, mandible, and parietal orthographic. Credit: Tel Aviv University Analysis of recently discovered fossils found in Israel suggests that interactions between different human species…
This image shows comparisons among Peking Man, Maba, Jinniushan, Dali and Harbin crania (from left to right). Credit: Kai Geng A near-perfectly preserved ancient human…
Static skull, mandible, and parietal orthographic. Credit: Tel Aviv University Dramatic Discovery in Israeli Excavation The discovery of a new Homo group in this region,…
Credit: University of Texas at Arlington Underwater archaeology team finds ancient obsidian flakes 2,000 miles from quarry. An underwater archaeologist from The University of Texas…
Set of photographs of stone lamp experiment. Credit: Medina-Alcaide et al, 2021, PLOS ONE A recreation of three common types of Paleolithic lighting systems (torches,…