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Ice Age Britons Returned 500 Years Earlier Than Thought
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (254+ words) The research matters because Britain was still joined to the continent. Reindeer and horses were moving into expanding grazing grounds, and people could follow them across a landmass not yet cut off by the sea. It adds a new twist…...
Neanderthal Turtle Hunting: Shells Used as Tools in Central Europe
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (164+ words) "Our data provide the first evidence that Neanderthals also hunted and processed turtles north of the Alps, beyond the Mediterranean region," said Gaudzinski-Windheuser. Painting of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) during the early temperate period of the Eemian interglacial, the…...
Scientists Say We've Been Looking in the Wrong Place for Human Origins
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (388+ words) A fossil from Egypt hints we may have been looking in the wrong place for ape origins. A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago…...
Masripithecus
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (19+ words) Ancient Origins Scientists Say We've Been Looking in the Wrong Place for Human Origins Disclaimer - Terms of Publication...
The Luminous Migrants: The Blond, Blue-Eyed Peoples Who Transformed the Chalcolithic Levant
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (466+ words) Ancient Origins The Luminous Migrants: The Blond, Blue-Eyed Peoples Who Transformed the Chalcolithic Levant "From this we can conclude that all blue-eyed individuals are linked to the same ancestor. They have all inherited the same switch at exactly the same…...
First Evidence of Habitable Forests in North Sea's 'Lost World"
2+ mon, 44+ min ago (514+ words) First Evidence of Habitable Forests in North Sea's 'Lost World'Ancient Origins First Evidence of Habitable Forests in North Sea's 'Lost World' The Lost World Beneath the North Sea Doggerland, often referred to as the 'Atlantis of Britain', was a vast…...
7. 2-Million-Year Femur Hints at 'Out of Bulgaria' Bipedal Origins
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (208+ words) The study has already stirred attention beyond academic circles, with Bulgaria's national news agency BTA highlighting the find as potential evidence that the "earliest bipedal hominins lived in the Balkans." At the same time, the authors stress that the fossil…...
Scans of 2, 000-Year-Old Egyptian Mummies Reveal Priestly Ailments
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (549+ words) A pair of ancient Egyptian mummies have just delivered a remarkably modern message: back pain is nothing new. Using high-resolution CT imaging, radiologists at Keck Medicine of USC have created detailed 3 D digital models of two priests who lived more…...
Ancient DNA Finds Rare Dwarfism in a 12, 000-Year-Old Teen
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (212+ words) The case comes from Grotta del Romito, a limestone cave near Papasidero in Calabria, where two individuals were buried together in an embrace. New genetic analysis shows the pair were both female and closely related - most likely mother and daughter…...
New Form of Life" Fossil Resculpts Devonian World
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (346+ words) The Rhynie chert is famous for capturing a whole early land ecosystem in exceptional detail, making it ideal for side-by-side comparisons of different organisms preserved under similar conditions. In a National Museums Scotland announcement, researchers describe'Prototaxites'as "life, but not as…...