First multi-individual Neanderthal mitogenomes from north of the Carpathians Picin et al. report eight Neanderthal mitogenomes from Stajnia Cave, identifying at least seven individuals and placing them in MIS 5. This oldest multi-individual genetic assemblage in Central…

Un grupito de neandertales identificado por el ADNmt de 9 dientes. Stajnia (Polonia), hace más de 100 ka.
First multi-individual Neanderthal mitogenomes from north of the Carpathians

Hypothesis: A modern human range expansion ~300,000 years ago explains Neandertal origins This paper demonstrates the feasibility of the hypothesis that Neandertals formed when a population using recently developed Levallois stone tool technology expanded between 400-250 thousand years ago...

Hypothesis: A modern human range expansion ~300,000 years ago explains Neandertal origins 🤯

The first Large Flake Acheulean in Europe at Revilleja de Valparaíso site, Hortigüela, Spain www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interesting write-up of our article!

The German Fossil That Baffled Scientists for Decades Was Not a Neanderthal–Modern Human Hybrid For almost half a century, a fragment of a human skull found on the banks of the Elbe River, near the German town of Hahnöfersand, has been at the center of an intense scientific debate. Discovered in...

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Zoologist and author Desmond Morris dies aged 98 Morris, who was also a surrealist painter and broadcaster, was best known for his 1967 book The Naked Ape.

Zoologist and author Desmond Morris dies aged 98
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No evidence that hominin dispersal across Eurasia was part of a wider turnover in mammal distributions - Nature Communications Hominin dispersal out of Africa may have corresponded with exchanges of other fauna out of Africa. Here, the authors examine taxonomic and functional similarities in Eurasian and African fossil commun...

No evidence that hominin dispersal across Eurasia was part of a wider turnover in mammal distributions

Using computed tomography to study DNA from ancient humans without destroying samples Research on ancient DNA is surging, but how can scientists ensure that human remains of irreplaceable significance are preserved? This is the question investigated by an international research team…

Promising!
Using computed tomography to study DNA from ancient humans without destroying samples

Gesher Benot Ya'aqov hace 780 ka: aprovechamiento de ramas y troncos en el paleolago Hula a lo largo de decenas de milenios.
Paleoenvironmental and behavioral insights into firewood selection by early Middle Pleistocene hominins

Un elefante procesado en EAK (Olduvai) hace 1,78 Ma: implicaciones para el origen de la cooperación Viajemos a uno de mis periodos favoritos en la evolución humana: aquel en que algunos representantes de Homo tempranos comienzan a desarrollar comportamientos de cooperación. Se trata de grupos de …

Un elefante procesado en EAK (Olduvai) hace 1,78 Ma: implicaciones para el origen de la cooperación

Halibee member archaeology: Middle Stone Age environment, technology, and postmortem modifications | PNAS The Middle Awash study area of Ethiopia’s Afar Rift features a composite stratigraphic thickness of >1 km. Near the top of this succession lie sedi...

Publicación de 1800 artefactos MSA y 3 esqueletos humanos de ~100 ka en Faro Daba, Halibee (Afar, Etiopía):
1) quedó enterrado rápido (¿inundación?)
2) con signos de carbonización
3) con daños de carnívoros
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Neanderthals From Spain To China Hoarded Rhino Teeth – Turns Out, They May Have Used Them As Tools The teeth of older rhinos seem to have been more sought-after by Neanderthal knappers.

Interesting! www.iflscience.com/neanderthals...

Announcement at the British Academy

Fabulous news that @martamlahr.bsky.social has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 🍾🍾🍾

Prehistoric seal tooth pendant reveals ancient culture in Devon A reanalysis of a misidentified Stone Age seal-tooth pendant reveals new insights into ancient British technology and cultural connections, led by researchers from the UCL Institute of Archaeology.

A 15,000-year-old pendant is changing how we see Ice Age Britain.

Reanalysis of a Kents Cavern artefact shows it’s a modified grey seal tooth, likely worn as a pendant and transported over 100km inland.

#Archaeology #IceAge #Prehistory @ucl.ac.uk @nhm-london.bsky.social

Some Parts Of Human DNA Might Be Evolving Way Faster Than Scientists Thought Evolution in action, baby.

Some Parts Of Human DNA Might Be Evolving Way Faster Than Scientists Thought

The Acheulean industry is associated with bifacial handaxes. Image credit: Studio Peace/Shutterstock.com

What Is the Acheulean?🏺🧪
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The purpose of this paper is not only to make a statement regarding how to define the Acheulean, but also to illustrate its diversity across Eurasia.

Lithic Miniaturization and Technological Innovation on the Southern Dispersal Route Out of Africa - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology Over the past fifteen years, the Dhofar Archaeological Project has mapped 272 Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic sites in southern Oman, each exhibiting some extent of Nubian Levallois technology.…

Cambio tecnológico con tendencia generalizada desde hace ~80 k hacia la industria miniaturizada Mudayyan.
Lithic Miniaturization and Technological Innovation on the Southern Dispersal Route Out of Africa

Anglo-Saxon burial holds an older sister cradling her little brother after they both died 1,400 years ago, possibly of an infectious disease An ancient-DNA analysis of a rare Anglo-Saxon double burial revealed the people in the grave were brother and sister.

Newly announced aDNA results from a Time Team-excavated double-burial show the deceased were brother and sister. 🧪🏺

Massive Ancient-DNA Study Reveals Natural Selection Has Accelerated in Recent Human Evolution Hundreds of genes selected in West Eurasia since farming began, many linked to health

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Amud 7, the Neanderthal baby who shows they developed faster than modern humans english.elpais.com/science-tech...

A look at the Maba hominin skull Found in 1958, the skull is one of a handful of fossil hominins from southern China that may be connected with the Denisovans.

A look at the Maba hominin skull @johnhawks.net open.substack.com/pub/johnhawk...

Evidence from Buhais Rockshelter for human settlement in Arabia between 60,000 and 16,000 years ago - Nature Communications The authors present an archaeological sequence and paleoenvironmental proxies from the Buhais Rockshelter (UAE) dating to between 60-16,000 years ago. They demonstrate that human occupation of this…

Presencia humana en Arabia al final del Pleistoceno y habitabilidad del sur de Arabia durante el último período glacial:
Evidence from Buhais Rockshelter for human settlement in Arabia between 60,000 and 16,000 years ago

Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads in Southern Africa at 60,000 years ago Earliest proof of plant poisons on arrows reveals complex Pleistocene hunting in southern Africa.

La evidencia directa más antigua del uso de veneno en puntas de flecha microlíticas en el sur de África. 60 ka, Umhlatuzana (KwaZulu-Natal, Sudáfrica).
Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads in Southern Africa at 60,000 years ago

Happy to be a part of this great new article on assessing and measuring complexity in archaeological, ethnographic and primatological contexts!

Ancient Landscape Reveals Bones of Humans Who Lived 100,000 Years Ago A monumental archaeological excavation in Africa has uncovered the lives of the humans who lived there 100,000 years ago.

Finds from the Halibee site in the Middle Awash, Ethiopia including stone tools and human remains.

Behavioral Modernity, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens: a Case for Concept Retirement - Biological Theory Biological Theory - Recent archaeological evidence is shedding light on the Neanderthals. New discoveries as well as recent reinterpretations of material traces associated with Neanderthals provide...

"El término «modernidad conductual humana» es impreciso y está desactualizado"
Behavioral Modernity, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens: a Case for Concept Retirement

The 160-year mystery of Europe's Ice Age 'queens' Despite more than a century and a half of speculation, these nude, faceless sculptures remain utterly enigmatic. Who made them? And what might they have been for?

The 160-year mystery of Europe's Ice Age 'queens'
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Ice Age art of the Swabian Jura
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Un elefante procesado en EAK (Olduvai) hace 1,78 Ma: implicaciones para el origen de la cooperación Viajemos a uno de mis periodos favoritos en la evolución humana: aquel en que algunos representantes de Homo tempranos comienzan a desarrollar comportamientos de cooperación. Se trata de grupos de …

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Genetic history of dog domestication Researchers explore the impact of domestication on dog genetics and behavior.

Genetic history of dog domestication | Science Sessions | PNAS www.pnas.org/post/podcast...