Neanderthal dentistry
PhysOrg has one more thing Neanderthals had that we have too – dental care: A discovery of multiple toothpick grooves on teeth and signs of […]
archaeology
Sniffing out Amelia Earhart’s bones… with dogs.
National Geographic is following the Amelia Earhart research group TIGHAR – the same group that held the chilling experiments involving coconut crabs and pig carcasses […]
The oldest Homo sapiens are from Morocco. And pretty darn old.
Nature turns the origins of modern humans – not Neanderthals, not Denisovans, but Homo sapiens like you and me – back more than 100,000 years, […]
Science Art: Corpus of Prehistoric Pottery: Polished Red – p. 1-22
Click to embiggen Silhouettes of polished redware from the Ancient Egyptian (or, really, older than Ancient Egyptian) Naqada culture. That’s about 5,500 years old, a […]
Humans didn’t live with dinosaurs… but maybe with ape-men.
Nature shines new light on a very old hominid – “Neo,” the ape-like Homo naledi who may have coexisted with early modern humans: H. naledi […]
The closest we come to getting Neanderthal injuries? Water-tubing.
Science News looks at broken bones – specifically, how modern bone breaks seem so different from the injuries we see in Neanderthal skeletons. Why should […]
Humans reached America 100,000 years earlier than thought.
Nature reveals the remains of a 130,000-year-old barbecue… that opens a controversial – and way, way older – chapter of human history in the Americas: […]
Bronze-Age Dane was an ancient immigrant.
Denmark’s The Local looks at the mummified remains of a woman who was anything but local, new research has found. One of the iconic ancestors […]
Medieval English mutilated their dead – to keep them from rising.
The Guardian unearths the truth about medieval Yorkshire’s drastic measures to prevent the dead from walking: The research published by Historic England and the University […]
Science Art: Denisova Phalanx distalis
A finger-bone from the other archaic humans – besides Neanderthals, there were Denisovans. And one of the fragments we know them from looked like this, […]
We might have found some more archaic Denisovan people in China.
Science looks at skulls from Eastern China that appear to be the remains of the little-known Denisovan prehistoric people: Since their discovery in 2010, the […]
Hidden labyrinths in Denmark, dating back to the Stone Age.
Science Nordic reports on the mysteries of enormous Stone-Age circles found in Denmark: One of the latest additions is a huge construction, discovered by archaeologists […]
Ancient pottery reveals the past of Earth’s magnetic field.
NPR has more on how potters inadvertently preserved a record of Earth’s magnetic field 3,000 years ago: About 3,000 years ago, a potter near Jerusalem […]
Engraved Gems of Ancient Kuwait
CPH Post Online reveals the discovery, by Moesgaard Museum scientists, of 3,500-year-old treasure in Kuwait: Danish archaeologists have been working on the tiny island of […]
Jersey shore (the one in the English Channel) was a prehistoric tourist attraction for *millennia*.
Science Daily looks at the vacation habits of Neanderthals on Jersey: As part of a re-examination of La Cotte de St Brelade and its surrounding […]