Neandertals mastered fire-making tools 400,000 years ago Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an ancient site in England.

Neandertals mastered fire-making tools 400,000 years ago #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #Neandertals #Evolution #Archaeology

Big Neandertal noses weren’t made for cold Tiny cameras threaded inside a Neandertal skull provide evidence that their big noses were not an adaptation to cold climates.

Big Neandertal noses weren’t made for cold #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #Neandertals #Evolution #Anthropology

Montserrat abans de Montserrat a #SenseMemòria

Un viatge històric del Paleolític a l'Edat Mitjana per descobrir com era Montserrat abans de l'any 1025.

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@iphes-cerca.bsky.social @abadiamontserrat.bsky.social
#neandertals #EdatMitjana @rtvecatalunya.bsky.social

DNA reveals Neandertals traveled thousands of kilometers into Asia DNA and stone tool comparisons suggest Eastern European Neandertals trekked 3,000 kilometers to Siberia, where they left a genetic and cultural mark.

DNA reveals Neandertals traveled thousands of kilometers into Asia #Science #Biology #Genetics #Neandertals #Paleontology

Acaba de sortir nova edició Coleccionista de la revista Muy Interesante: “Neandertales. Lo que fuimos antes de ser nosotros” on Carles Lalueza-Fox, director del Museu ens parla de la història genòmica dels neandertals.

Llegiu més a:
👉 www.muyinteresante.com/actualidad/m...

#neandertals #genòmica

Middle Palaeolithic Human occupations, cultural behaviours and demographic dynamics during MIS 5a to late 3 in the Bawa Yawan Rockshelter, Kermanshah, West-Central Zagros Mountains Despite many years of research into the Middle Palaeolithic in the Zagros Mountains, numerous aspects of this period have not yet been sufficiently in…

Estudi sobre les ocupacions durant el #Paleolític mitjà a #BawaYawan #Kermanshah, serralada dels #Zagros #Iran #arqueologia #neandertals

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Neandertal variant reduces activity of a key muscle enzyme New study shows that a genetic variant inherited from Neandertals impairs the function of a key enzyme involved in muscle performance

A study by Dominik Macak, Hugo Zeberg @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social, and colleagues identifies a gene variant coming from #Neandertals that reduces AMPD1 enzyme activity in muscle. While #health effects are moderate, the enzyme is crucial for human #athletic #performance. www.mpg.de/25039233/070...

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Neandertals may have hunted in horse-trapping teams 200,000 years ago A revised age for a German site indicates that our evolutionary cousins organized horse ambushes around 200,000 years ago.

Neandertals may have hunted in horse-trapping teams 200,000 years ago #Science #Biology #Anthropology #Neandertals #HuntingStrategies #Paleontology

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Neandertals invented bone-tipped spears all on their own An 80,000-year-old bone point found in Eastern Europe challenges the idea that migrating Homo sapiens gave the technology to Neandertals.

Neandertals invented bone-tipped spears all on their own #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #Neandertals #Evolution #Archaeology

New research on the #Goyet #Neandertals presented this week at the #SAPconference: inferences on biological profiles & biomechanics from the postcranial skeleton, by @quentin-cosnefroy.bsky.social with @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social

People Today Carry DNA from Neandertals. Here’s How It May Affect Our Brain and Behavior DNA inherited from Neandertals may influence modern human cognition

“Although we don’t yet know whether the Neandertal DNA associated with autism is also linked to intelligence, savant­ism or general creativity, we are slowly connecting the dots.”
#isogg #dna #epigenetics #neandertals #autism #scientificamerican
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

When Neandertals Became Apex Predators

“Climbing to the summit of the Eurasian food chain was one of the Neandertals’ most impressive evolutionary feats, but in the end, it may have actually been what doomed them.” #Eons #Neandertals

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New article out! Collaborative work led by arevsumer.bsky.social‬ who also wrote a thread 👇 outlining the numerous new results of the study. Here is Fig. 4, a visual representation of the main points. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08420-x #archeogenetics #Homosapiens #Neandertals

Optimal linear estimation models predict 1400–2900 years ... Recent fossil discoveries suggest that Neandertals and Ho...

Original study:

I. Djakovic et al., Optimal linear estimation models predict 1400–2900 years of overlap between #HomoSapiens and #Neandertals prior to their disappearance from #France and northern #Spain, @SciReports 12, 2022. 🔓

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-19162-z

Maybe also worth re-reading in the light of these news:

Dirk L. Hoffmann et al., #Symbolic use of marine #shells and mineral #pigments by Iberian #Neandertals 115,000 years ago, @ScienceAdvances 4(2), 2018. 🔓

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/2/eaar5255

Tracking late Pleistocene Neandertals on the Iberian coas... Here, we report the recent discovery of 87 Neandertal foo...

Original study:

E. Mayoral et al., Tracking late Pleistocene #Neandertals on the #Iberian coast, @SciReports 11, 4103 (2021). 🔓

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83413-8

Neandertals on the beach: Use of marine resources at Grot... Excavated in 1949, Grotta dei Moscerini, dated MIS 5 to e...

Original study by P. Villa et al., "#Neandertals on the beach: Use of #marine resources at #GrottaDeiMoscerini (Latium, #Italy)", published in @PLOSONE 15(1), 2020:

journals.plos.org/plosone/article

Come along today to our free lunchtime public lecture (1 south parks rd) by @LeMoustier and hear all about defrosting #neandertals

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Dressed up to the nines?

"#Neandertals made their own jewelry, new method confirms" (by @lizzie_wade via @NatGeo).

www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/neandertals...

"#Neandertals and Upper Paleolithic #HomoSapiens had different dietary strategies" - www.heritagedaily.com/2016/04/neandertals-and-... via @HeritageDaily