Unlocking the Past, Guiding the Future
Unlocking the Past, Guiding the Future
A set of prehistoric wooden spears found over two decades ago in Schöningen, Germany—then estimated to be between 300,000 and 400,000 years old—may be as young as 200,000 years old, according to new research published in Science Advances. This revised…
In a new paper published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, researchers from the University of Wollongong in Australia have discovered that Neanderthals had precise control over the angle at which they struck stone cores to produce tools, offering new information…
Archaeologists working in the Caucasus Mountains in southern Russia discovered a revolutionary artifact that challenges assumptions held for centuries about Neanderthal technological skill. A bone spear point that measures 9 centimeters in length, recovered from Mezmaiskaya Cave in the North…
A revolutionary study in genetics has upended the long-standing belief that modern humans originated from a single continuous lineage. Instead, research conducted by a team at the University of Cambridge has now produced robust evidence suggesting that Homo sapiens is…
A recent discovery in Tinshemet Cave, central Israel, is changing the way we look at early human interactions. Archaeologists have found human burials from the Middle Paleolithic period, and they revealed that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens not only lived in…
Iranian archaeologists have uncovered compelling evidence of human habitation in Ghamari Cave dating back 40,000 to 80,000 years. The cave is located near Khorramabad in Iran’s Lorestan Province. Among the discoveries were stone tools, animal bones, and pottery. These items…
A recent study has used advanced radiocarbon dating to present a more precise age for the Lapedo Child, a significant archaeological find that reshaped our perception of the interaction between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. The remains show both Neanderthal and…
A new study has uncovered a major genetic bottleneck in Neanderthals about 110,000 years ago, shedding light on their demographic history and potential causes for their extinction. The research was conducted by an international team of scholars and published in…
Two new studies published in Science and Nature have provided unprecedented insights into the period when ancient humans (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthals interbred. By analyzing 59 ancient genomes and comparing them with 275 present-day genomes, researchers have pinpointed the period…
A team of paleoanthropologists, led by Christopher J. Bae from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and Xiujie Wu from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has introduced Homo juluensis, a newly identified…
