Humans First Inhabited Southern Britain 600,000 Years Ago
Archaeological discoveries outside Canterbury confirm that early humans lived in southern Britain between 560,000 and 620,000 years ago. In the…
Archaeological discoveries outside Canterbury confirm that early humans lived in southern Britain between 560,000 and 620,000 years ago. In the…
What do we know about the Denisovans? In 2010, it became known that paleogeneticists had read the ancient genome of…
Archaeologists have clarified the dating of the Omo I fossils, which are considered by some scientists to be the oldest…
Biologists and anthropologists have re-examined the tracks on the volcanic tuff that were discovered in 1976 in Tanzania. For a…
Paleogeneticists isolated DNA from the remains of a young woman who died in South Sulawesi about 7.3-7.2 thousand years ago and found that her genome contains fewer genes from Denisovans than most modern Australian Aborigines and Papuans. In addition, it belongs to a previously undescribed population of hunter-gatherers, whose ancestors may have come to Sulawesi before the Papuans, Australian, and Tasmanian aborigines.
Paleogeneticists analyzed sediment samples from the Georgian cave of Satsurbia and found ancient DNA fragments of a wolf, a bison, as well as a person who lived about 25 thousand years ago. The woman whose DNA was studied belonged to a completely unknown human population.
Scientists have found an artifact made of the bone of a giant deer, decorated with chevrons. The discovery is no less than 51 thousand years old.
Scientists from China and Great Britain published three articles in The Innovation magazine ( 1 , 2 , 3 )…
Paleoanthropologists examined recently discovered fossils from the Nesher Ramla site. The parietal bones and the lower jaw belonged to a…
Archaeologists obtained new dates for the Boker-Takhtit Paleolithic site in the Negev desert in Israel and compared them with the…
The genome of a modern human was deciphered, whose skull was found in the Zlatý Kun (“Golden Horse”) cave in…
Those of us who follow scientific news and discoveries about alien life experience the same rollercoaster of emotions every year….
What are the first creations of man? A discovery in southern Africa takes us back 75,000 years when the inhabitants of…
Scientists are well aware that chimpanzees are masters in the use of “auxiliary tools”. They use branches and sticks to…
A cave painting of a pig discovered in a karst cave on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia has been…
Approximately 200,000 years ago, the early human brain evolved at an extreme rate, almost suddenly. What caused this major change?…
Scientists have discovered many deformed and elongated skulls that tell a unique yet haunting tale about human history. The people…
The culture of Paracas was one of the first complex societies known in South America. Its name comes from the…
What if thousands of years ago, long before the first ancient civilizations developed and walked the surface of our planet,…
Scientists have reported the discovered of a 4-million-year-old fossil in Ethiopia that may force us to rethink previous evolutionary theories….
Stone tools discovered in Mongolia by an international team of archaeologists indicate that modern humans traveled through the Eurasian steppe…
The skeletal remains discovered in Greece could rewrite the history of human migration in Euroasia. Scientists have revealed new details…