Monday, September 28, 2020

How Neanderthals lost their Y chromosome

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  Neanderthals have long been seen as uber-masculine hunks, at least compared with their lightweight human cousins, with whom they competed ...
Friday, September 11, 2020

Bronze Age hoard unearthed near River Thames goes on display

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  A gallery assistant looks at a socketed axe on display during a preview of the Havering Hoard: A Bronze Age Mystery exhibition at the Muse...

Fingerprints help identify age and sex of prehistoric painters in southern Spain

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  A Neolithic schematic art painting in the Los Machos rockshelter  Photo: Francisco Martínez-Sevilla Fingerprints are not just useful for c...

When did we become fully human? What fossils and DNA tell us about the evolution of modern intelligence

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  Key physical and cultural milestones in modern human evolution, including genetic divergence of ethnic groups. Nick Longrich, Author provi...

The Oldest Neanderthal DNA of Central-Eastern Europe

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  Image Credit : Jerzy Opioła Around 100,000 years ago, the climate worsened abruptly and the environment of Central-Eastern Europe shifted ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

About 30 previously unknown stones discovered at Carahunge (the Armenian Stonehenge)

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About 30 previously unknown stones with holes have been discovered at Carahunge or Zorats Karer (the Armenian Stonehenge). Other stones...

DES TOMBES GAULOISES AUX PORTES DE NÎMES (GARD)

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À l'ouest du centre-ville de Nîmes, l'Inrap vient de mettre à jours des vestiges de l’âge du Fer à l’Antiquité ; sépultures, cham...

Europe's earliest bone tools found in Britain

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One of the oldest organic tools in the world. A bone hammer used to make the fine flint bifaces from Boxgrove. The bone shows scraping ma...
Monday, August 10, 2020

"Woodhenge” discovered in prehistoric complex of Perdigões

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Archaeological excavations in the Perdigões complex, in the Évora district, have identified "a unique structure in the Prehistory of...

Burnt remains from 586 BCE Jerusalem may hold key to protecting planet

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A new analysis of 1st Temple-era artifacts, magnetized when Babylonians torched the city, provides a way to chart the geomagnetic field –...

Detectorist 'shaking with happiness' after Bronze Age find

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Items believed to be pieces of the Bronze Age harness were also found CROWN COPYRIGHT A metal detectorist was left "shaking with...

Metal detectorist unearths ‘nationally significant’ Bronze Age hoard

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Bronze Age harness A metal detectorist has discovered a hoard of Bronze Age artefacts in the Scottish Borders which experts have descri...

Mystery ancestor mated with ancient humans. And its 'nested' DNA was just found.

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An unidentified ancestor that interbred with humans may have been Homo erectus (skull shown here). (Image: © Shutterstock) Today...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Skeletons reveal wealth gap in Europe began to open 6600 years ago

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Some early European farmers seem to have been much better off than others Chelsea Budd/Umeå University A wealth gap may have existed ...

Remains of 10,000-year-old woolly mammoth pulled from Siberian lake

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A newly discovered woolly mammoth skeleton found on the Yamal peninsula in Siberia, Russia, is remarkably well preserved. Photograph: mvk...
Monday, August 3, 2020

Update on the Asclepeion dig at Epidaurus

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Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports Culture Minister Lina Mendoni on Thursday visited the archaeological site at the Epidaurus...

Why Sanskrit has strong links to European languages and what it learnt in India

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Jones’ claim rested on the evidence of several Sanskrit words that had similarities with Greek and Latin. (Photo created by Gargi Singh) ...
Sunday, August 2, 2020

Ancient bones in disturbed peat bogs are rotting away, alarming archaeologists

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Peat moss around a pool in Cairngorms National Park in the United Kingdom  DUNCAN SHAW/SCIENCE SOURCE The wrinkles on the face of “To...

Stonehenge: Sarsen stones origin mystery solved

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The origin of the standing sarsens at Stonehenge had been impossible to identify until now The origin of the giant sarsen stones at Sto...

Study Suggests Bones Preserved in Peat Bogs May Be at Risk

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Bogs are perhaps best known for preserving prehistoric human remains. One of the most famous examples of these so-called "bog bodies...