Sunday, December 22, 2013

OCHRE HAND IMPRINT OF HOMO ERECTUS REVEALED

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O nce again, the Homo   erectus   site  of Lehberg near Haidershofen in the Lower Austrian part of the Enns (a southern tributary of the ...

Neanderthals could speak like modern humans, study suggests

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An analysis of a Neanderthal's fossilised hyoid bone - a horseshoe-shaped structure in the neck - suggests the species had the abili...
Friday, December 20, 2013

Neandertal genome project reaches its goal

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An international research team led by Kay Prüfer and Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, G...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

Neanderthal Genome Shows Early Human Interbreeding, Inbreeding

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Family tree of the four groups of early humans living in Eurasia 50,000 years ago and the lingering genetic heritage due to interbreeding...

Ancient Incest Uncovered in Neanderthal Genome

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Data obtained from a Neanderthal woman's toe bone points to incest and inbreeding among early humans, an international genetics team...

Neanderthal genome shows early human interbreeding

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First high-quality genome sequence allows comparison with human, Denisovan DNA The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal g...

Neanderthal Burials Confirmed as Ancient Ritual

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A Neanderthal skeleton first unearthed in a cave in southwestern France over a century ago was intentionally buried, according to a new ...

The world’s first detailed prehistoric maps of Britain

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The ABC Publishing Group has announced the publication of the world’s first prehistoric maps of Britain. These maps are based on the recent...

Mystery early human revealed by DNA dat

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The genome sequence came from a toe bone found in Denisova Cave, Siberia DNA analysis of early human remains from a Siberian cave has ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Before Stonehenge - did this man lord it over Wiltshire's sacred landscape?

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Archaeologists have just completed the most detailed study ever carried out of the life story of a prehistoric Briton. What they...

1.4 million-year-old fossil human hand bone closes human evolution gap

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Humans have a distinctive hand anatomy that allows them to make and use tools. Apes and other nonhuman primates do not have these distincti...

NEANDERTHALS BURIED THEIR DEAD IN WESTERN EUROPE

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F or decades, scholars had questioned the existence and evidence for burial in Western Europe prior to the arrival of Anatomically Modern...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Ancient hand bone dates origins of human dexterity

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The styloid process allows the hand to lock into the wrist bones The discovery of an ancient bone at a burial site in Kenya puts the o...
Monday, December 16, 2013

An archaeology plant puzzle: Dr Helen Wickstead on 6,000-year-old finds at Damerham

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Dr Helen Wickstead, of Kingston University, on a sink hole of 6,000-year-old plant material at a Neolithic site in Damerham, Hampshire ...

Ancient pig-shaped baby bottle found in Italy

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Italian archaeologists have discovered an ancient terracotta pig which worked as a toy as well as a modern-day baby bottle. Italian arch...

Stonehenge unveils trip back in time with new £27m visitor centre

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It has been decades since visitors to Stonehenge were able to experience what Neolithic man did when he first set foot inside the gigan...
Saturday, December 14, 2013

4.4 MILLION YEAR OLD HORSE HELPS UNDERSTAND HOMININ HABITAT

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T wo teams of researchers have announced the discovery of a new species of fossil horse from 4.4 million-year-old deposits in Ethiopia. ...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Nutrients in food vital to location of early human settlements

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Research led by the University of Southampton has found that early humans were driven by a need for nutrient-rich food to select 'spec...

Revealed: how prehistoric 'des res' gave Stone Age Brits a perfect diet

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25-site survey shows that early humans chose predominantly to live on islands in the flood plains of major rivers Stone Age Brits wer...

Sumatra coastal cave records stunning tsunami history

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The cave retains the deposits washed ashore by huge waves over thousands of years A cave on the northwestern coast of Sumatra holds a ...