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A Hundred Thousand Years Ago, Humans and Neanderthals Built a Shared Culture in This Cave
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (492+ words) Species didn't really matter. Survival and culture did. Humans and Neanderthals not only coexisted and interbred, but actively collaborated and shared their cultures. This stunning finding, based on excavations from Tinshemet Cave, suggests that they were sharing hunting strategies, tool-making tips,…...
Scientists Find the Likeliest Place Where Neanderthals and Modern Humans Interbred
2+ week, 3+ day ago (430+ words) In the heart of the Zagros Mountains, ancient humans crossed paths with Neanderthals. For tens of thousands of years, two species " Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans " shared vast landscapes. Occasionally, they crossed paths, and when they did, they left traces…...
15, 000-Year-Old Clay Beads Show Children Helped Craft Some of the First Ornaments
1+ week, 3+ day ago (781+ words) Home " Science " History Beads modeled on plants and marked by fingerprints suggest symbolism and social learning predate agriculture by thousands of years. Fifteen thousand years ago, someone pressed their fingers into soft clay'never knowing those tiny ridges would outlast millennia....
The Bow Arrived Strikingly Late in Western North America'and Hunters Didn't Adopt It the Same Way
3+ week, 6+ day ago (496+ words) This extremely useful weapon has a convolute history in North America. The bow and arrow only arrived in western North America 1, 400 years ago, according to a recent dating of over a hundred ancient weapons. This is surprising given this technology…...
Touching 3 D Grave Cast in Britain Shows Roman Parents Weren't Actually Indifferent to the Deaths of Their Babies
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (443+ words) A narrative investigation into the lavish, plaster-encased burials of infants in Roman York, revealing hidden grief. Nearly 1, 700 years ago, in the Roman city of Eboracum'modern-day York, UK'grieving parents laid their two-month-old infant to rest. They wrapped the small body in…...
Gruesome Iron Age Massacre May Have Intentionally Targeted Only Women and Children
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (913+ words) It may have been an extreme act meant to destroy rival bloodlines. But a second look with modern tools shows these people didn't succumb to disease. They were brutally murdered. Researchers used advanced bioarchaeological techniques to find unhealed blunt-force and…...
Humans Tried to Leave Africa Many Times, But Most Attempts Failed
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (334+ words) New research reveals why early migrations vanished without a trace. We often view the human story as a steady, inevitable march across the globe. But the reality is much messier'and a lot more tragic. At the time, Arabia wasn't a…...
Are 1 in 200 Men Really Descended from Genghis Khan? Ancient DNA Shows We Were Probably Wrong
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (751+ words) You probably are not related to Genghis Khan. For a long time, we've been sold the idea that Genghis Khan, the 13th-century founder of the Mongol Empire, was so phenomenally prolific that one in 200 men alive today carries his exact…...
Mysterious Marks on 40, 000-Year-Old Ice Age Figurines May Actually Be the Earliest Precursor to Writing
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (762+ words) Deep in a cave in southwestern Germany, a Stone Age artist carved a tiny mammoth from a piece of tusk. They then covered it with a deliberate sequence of crosses and dots. Created 40, 000 years ago by some of Europe's first…...
The Mystery of Why Only Humans Have Chins May Finally Have an Answer " And It's Not What You'd Expect
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (820+ words) Your chin might just be an evolutionary side effect of the human face shrinking over millions of years. The human chin is uniquely human, and the assumption has always been that it must have evolved for a specific purpose, perhaps…...