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Stone Tools in China: A 70,000–100,000-Year-Old Shift
6+ hour, 8+ min ago (504+ words) A 70,000–100,000-year-old site in China’s Lower Yangtze region yielded 3,596 stone artifacts. Their size and manufacture point to a change in toolmaking, but not to a known species or a settled explanation. Stone tools in China’s Lower Yangtze region point to…...
A 45,000 year old crystal tool challenges long held views of Neanderthal intelligence
6+ hour, 4+ min ago (440+ words) Futura, le média qui explore le monde A 45,000 year old crystal tool challenges long held views of Neanderthal intelligence A cave in the Dordogne George Grant MacCurdy led the five year project at Abri des Merveilles. Between 1924 and 1929, his team…...
Addressing the Prehistoric Egyptian
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (100+ words) NOTE: While reading my first academic book on Ancient Egypt, I felt the urge to write a sort of poem reflecting how I daydream within this realm. Here, this is my …...
How Blood and Lime May Have Preserved Huashan Rock Art
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (678+ words) Researchers studying fallen Huashan rock art fragments found a lime-and-blood binder around red pigment. The possible link to childbirth remains an interpretation, not chemical proof. How did the Huashan rock art survive for roughly 2,000 years on limestone cliffs exposed to…...
Indus Valley, Mesopotamia shared genetic link beyond trade: BHU geneticist
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Scientific study sheds new light on human evolution
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (1114+ words) A new study shows that modern humans (Homo sapiens) inherited DNA from two previously unidentified extinct populations for which there is currently no known fossil evidence. The remarkable discovery was made possible by the ability of scientists to identify complete…...
A forearm bone has been found at the Denisov site for the first time
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (473+ words) In China, five Denisovan remains have been confirmed on the basis of ancient proteins, including the first known fragment of their radius. The discovery suggests that Denisovans lived in south-western China approximately 167,000–134,000 years ago. In the Bianfu Cave in the…...
Denisovans Hunted Deer and Made Bone Tools for 120,000 Years in China: Nature Papers
3+ day, 17+ min ago (563+ words) The tooth shapes were then cross-referenced against known Denisovan specimens from Siberia, Tibet, and Laos, and matched closely. "As soon as he saw a picture of the tooth, 'I immediately assumed that they were probably Denisovan,'" said Clément Zanolli, a…...
Ancient DNA Reveals What Actually Happened to Ordinary People After the Western Roman Empire Fell
3+ day, 45+ min ago (1287+ words) Ancient DNA suggests Rome’s fall reshaped Europe through gradual migration and intermarriage, not a sudden barbarian takeover....
The First Denisovan Arm Bone Offers a New Clue to What These Ancient and Mysterious Humans Looked Like
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (750+ words) Home → Science → Anthropology New fossils, tools and butchered bones put an elusive human lineage into everyday life. The fossil is only about 4.5 centimeters long, a broken piece of the radius near the elbow. But for scientists trying to reconstruct the…...