Some populations of Neanderthals were definitely more carnivorous than others. By Dr. Anna GoldfieldArchaeologist One of the...
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Even genetics support the idea that Neanderthals were better sprinters than runners. By Dr. Anna GoldfieldArchaeologist If...
The three Storegga Slides of 6225-6170 BCE are considered to be amongst the largest known landslides. Introduction...
Primitive women were more likely than their male counterparts to pack up and leave the cave. Primitive...
Why did Earth’s climate rapidly cool 12,800 years ago? Evidence is mounting that a comet or asteroid...
The reconstruction of ancient climate is important to understand natural variation in climate and the evolution of...
It has been suggested that there is a correlation between demographic and social patterns and the flourishing...
Scholars agree that the carving and markings were made by human hands. Prehistoric Art around the Globe...
The vessels were found in Bronze Age and Iron Age infant graves in Bavaria, Germany. By Emily...
What we think we know about the arrival of Homo sapiens on this continent. In the 1970s,...
About 19,000 years ago in southwestern France at a site called Saint-Germain-La-Rivière, an adult woman dies and...
Britain’s prehistoric landscapes are depicted in prints and drawings across the British Library’s collections. The prehistoric monuments...
The viral genetics of Hepatitis B is helping to trace the history and movement of Australia’s first...
Early spiritual and religious concepts developed to deal with an occasionally but worldwide seen natural phenomenon which...
The history of Eurasia is the collective history of a continental area with several distinct peripheral coastal...
Astonishing new research shows that fossil teeth, like trees, contain detailed records of the environments in which...
What does the discovery of Homo luzonensis mean for our understanding of humanity’s history? This week, anthropologists...
The earliest cave paintings here are about 30,000 years old. Introduction The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site...
Discovered in 1925, the skull was the first fossilized archaic human found in Western Asia. Introduction Mugharet...
The Wielbark culture was named after a village where a burial place with over 3,000 tombs. Introduction...
Scandinavia was populated by two main migrations, making its first inhabitants more genetically diverse and adapted to...
Using the family relationships between single-celled protists alive today, researchers hypothesized what their evolutionary ancestors looked like...
Newly found fossils point to a link between a rise in atmospheric oxygen and the first emergence...
Vision is a window onto the world, its qualities determined by natural selection. Evolution has favoured the...
Humans stand out among all the mammals as being the only species to totter about on two...
The Silk Road provided a conduit not only for silk, but also offered a very important path...
The Wadi Suq culture defines human settlement in the United Arab Emirates and Oman in the period...
Umm an-Nār in the area of modern-day United Arab Emirates and Northern Oman. Introduction Umm al-Nar (Arabic: أُمّ الـنَّـار, translit....
Humans have crafted garments for more than 40,000 years—and prehistoric tools suggest that warmth wasn’t their only...
A key requisite for the use and appreciation of all beads and pendants is a level of...