Lethal plague outbreaks in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago
Barbieri, R. et al. Yersinia pestis: the natural history of plague. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00044-19 (2020). Article PubMed …
In African cave, Israeli, international scientists find signs of earliest use of fire
A team of international researchers, including Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Dr. Liora Kolska Horwitz, has found evidence of…
Stonehenge’s 13,228-pound Altar Stone transported 435 miles by humans
After decades of debate, a new study has revealed the epic journey that the Altar Stone, a six-ton…
Neanderthals used rhinoceros teeth as ancient tools, study suggests
Markings found on fossilized woolly rhinoceros teeth in caves in Europe suggests that they may have been part…
100,000-year-old human remains could be the world’s oldest cremation
Archaeologists might have just discovered the world’s earliest known human cremation in the Afar Rift, Ethiopia—dating back 60,000…
China scientists argue that harsh settings, not warm climates, drive early human creativity
Archaeologists in central China have directly challenged the long-held belief that humanity’s earliest ancestors reached their creative peak…
Neanderthals used rhino teeth as hammers to sculpt stone tools
A new study has revealed another remarkable aspect of Neanderthal behavior: they not only consumed the animals they…
Dante’s Inferno may have predicted planetary impact physics centuries before modern science
New research suggests Dante Alighieri’s Inferno may have done more than shape literary history — it may also…
Dinosaurs emerged 10 million years earlier than previously thought: Study
A new study by Princeton and Yale Universities has revised the timeline of dinosaur origins, pushing it back…
100,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Fossils in Poland Reveal Unexpected Genetic Connections
Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) were an extinct group of archaic humans who lived across Europe and western Asia until…
New secrets of human evolution unlocked in study of ancient DNA from Europe and Near East
Some 4,000 years ago, as ancient civilizations such as the Minoans in Crete and the Neo-Sumerian Empire in…
A Hundred Thousand Years Ago, Humans and Neanderthals Built a Shared Culture in This Cave
Artistic depiction of an ancient Neanderthal around a campfire. Humans and Neanderthals not only coexisted and interbred, but…