Monday, April 27, 2015

France's prehistoric Chauvet cave opens

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A stunning replica of the 36,000 year-old Grotte Chauvet, home to the oldest figurative cave drawings in the world and an Unesco Heritage...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

New Thoughts on Neanderthal Cooking

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Neanderthals went extinct in most of Europe around 40,000 years ago, some 5,000 years after the arrival of the first modern humans. “The...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

Study report revisits cave of prehistoric cannibals

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In 2012, a detailed report of prehistoric cannibalism in Gough’s cave in Cheddar Gorge (Somerset), UK, attracted media attention with t...

More Evidence of Cannibalism Found in Gough’s Cave

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(The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London) Ancient human remains from Gough’s Cave, located in southwest England, exhibit sig...
Friday, April 17, 2015

Ältester Nachweis von Pilzen als Nahrungsmittel

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Untersuchungen von altem Zahnstein ergaben, dass Menschen bereits in der Altsteinzeit Pflanzen und Pilze konsumierten. Über die Nahrung...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Palaeolithic remains show cannibalistic habits of human ancestors

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A alysis of ancient cadavers recovered at a famous archaeological site confirm the existence of a sophisticated culture of butchering and c...

Complex cognition shaped the Stone Age hand axe, study shows

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Emory Health Sciences —The ability to make a Lower Paleolithic hand axe depends on complex cognitive control by the prefrontal cortex, i...

Neanderthals manipulated the bodies of adults and children shortly after death

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Since the Marillac site in France was unearthed, the discovery of fossil remains of animals (90% belonging to reindeer), humans and Moust...

Monticello, un établissement métallurgique néolithique

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Britain’s Oldest Cremated Human Bone Discovered

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It had been thought that the nomadic hunter-gatherers of Britain’s Mesolithic period may have abandoned their dead, but a deposit contain...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

France creates replica cave for spectacular prehistoric art

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The replica cave art shows hundreds of animals - many no longer found in Europe France has inaugurated a giant replica cave containing...

Replica of prehistoric French grotto to open

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The replica of the Chauvet cave at Pont d'Arc is to open its doors. Photo: AFP A stunning replica of the 36,000 year-old Grotte Cha...

Excavating the Cromlech Tumulus on Slievemore: The story so far

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Looking south across the western part of the site. The enclosure wall can be seen on the right of the picture whilst the western end of ...

Are Neanderthal bone flutes the work of Ice Age hyenas?

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'Bone flutes' found accross Europe in caves are more likely to be the scavenged remains of cave bears finds this study. Credit: ...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Embracing skeletons unearthed in Greece

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Almost 6,000 years ago, the man was placed behind the woman with his arms around her body, and their legs were intertwined. They were burie...

Climate change is destroying Greenland’s earliest history

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The settlement Qajaa at Ilulissat Ice Fjord in West Greenland. Over the past 3500 years this has been home to the three main Greenlandic ...

Jewelry Styles Suggest Northern Europeans Resisted Farming

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Previous scholarship has shown a link between foraging and farming lifestyles and the adoption of particular ornaments. Now, for the firs...
Friday, April 10, 2015

L’australopithèque Little Foot a 3 670 000 ans

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Des chercheurs d’institutions américaines, canadiennes, sud-africaines, et françaises publient cette semaine dans la revue Nature la data...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Woolly mammoth could roam again as extinct DNA merged with elephant

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Harvard University spliced recreated genes from a woolly mammoth into the DNA of an elephant and found they functioned normally A m...

Did a volcanic cataclysm 40,000 years ago trigger the final demise of the Neanderthals?

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The Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) eruption in Italy 40,000 years ago was one of the largest volcanic cataclysms in Europe and injected a signif...