Tooth Belonging To Mysterious Human Ancestor Revealed By Experts
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What do we know about the Denisovans? In 2010, it became known that paleogeneticists had read the ancient genome of…
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Neanderthal Complex and Complicated Pattern of Extinction Revealed
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Archaeologists have studied stone tools found in northern Spain at the site of Aranbaltza II and have come to the…
Have Orangutans Started Using Stone Tools?
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When did humans start using stone tools? About 2.6 million years ago began the longest era in the history of…
New Dating Method Rewrites History of Humans in Africa
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Archaeologists have clarified the dating of the Omo I fossils, which are considered by some scientists to be the oldest…
41,500-Year-Old Artifact is World’s Oldest Ornate Jewelry
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Archaeologists in Poland have discovered two fragments of an ancient pendant with dotted patterns and a broken bone awl. Direct…
DNA Helps Solve Mystery of Ancient Mummies Buried in Boats in Chinese Desert
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Paleogenetics investigated 18 ancient genomes of the inhabitants of Xinjiang (about 3000-1700 BC) and found out the origin of the…
12,000-Year-Old Dog Remains Rewrite History of Human Presence In Central America
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Paleozoologists have examined a fragment of an ancient coyote jaw discovered in the 1990s during excavations in northeastern Costa Rica….
Discovery Rewrites History of Human Presence in the Americas
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Paleoanthropologists from the United Kingdom and the United States have found 61 distinct human footprints in Pleistocene deposits in New…
Tools Used to Create Clothes 120,000 Years Ago Found by Experts
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Archaeologists have discovered the oldest evidence of the manufacture of clothing in the Moroccan Contrebandiers Cave. They found bone tools…
400,000-Year-Old Elephant Bone Tools Discovered
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Archaeologists examined artifacts from the Castel di Guido site, located near Rome, and discovered the largest collection of elephant bone…
60,000-Year-Old Cave Art in Spain was Made by Neanderthals
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Scientists have discovered in the Spanish cave of Ardales drawings left by Neanderthals between 45 and 65 thousand years ago. Chemical analysis showed that the cave art in Spain was of man-made origin, and archaic people brought ocher from outside the monument. Apparently, karst formations played a symbolic role among some groups of Neanderthals.
Previously Unknown Human Population Found
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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.
Researchers Identify Previously Unknown Early Human Species in Israel—10 Things You Need to Know
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Paleoanthropologists examined recently discovered fossils from the Nesher Ramla site. The parietal bones and the lower jaw belonged to a…
Two Mystery Human Species Lived Together 50,000-Years Ago in Israel–10 Reasons Why This is Important
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Archaeologists obtained new dates for the Boker-Takhtit Paleolithic site in the Negev desert in Israel and compared them with the…
350,000-Year-Old Archaeological Site Revealed in Saudi Arabia—10 Things You Need to Know
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Researchers dated the sedimentary layers of an ancient lake and the Acheulean tools found in the lacustrine sediments at the…
In a first, Scientists Sequence 16,000-Year-Old Bear DNA From Cave Soil Samples
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In one of the countless caves in Mexico, scientists were able to isolate DNA samples that belonged to extinct bear…
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Richat Structure
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Who would expect that one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of planet Earth is located in the nothingness of the…
Scientists Reconstruct Oldest Modern Human Genome From 45,000-Year-Old Skull
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The genome of a modern human was deciphered, whose skull was found in the Zlatý Kun (“Golden Horse”) cave in…
Ancient Cave Painting Artists Were High Due To Lack Of Oxygen Inside Caves
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Researchers Yafit Kedar and Ran Barkai from Tel Aviv University (Israel) have hypothesized that prehistoric artists went deep into caves…
Oldest Stone Technologies Are Even Older Than Previously Thought
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In parallel with the biological evolution of early humans, they also developed certain cultural technologies that improved their life and…
Some 350,000 Years Ago, Humans Used This Abrading Tool
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Re-analysis of finds made during excavations in the Tabun Cave (Israel) showed that one of the artifacts – a rounded…
Discovery Of Symbols Etched On a 120,000-Year-Old Bone Rewrite History
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Israeli archaeologists, while excavating a prehistoric site near the city of Nesher Ramla, discovered a bone with mysterious etchings dated…