11/29/2023
M Mark Milligan
Researchers suggests that early humans were hunting, skinning, and eating beavers around 400,000-years-ago.
10/23/2023
M Mark Milligan
A study conducted by CNRS has determined who the first modern humans to settle in Europe were.
09/22/2023
M Mark Milligan
Archaeologists from the University of Liverpool and Aberystwyth University have discovered a wooden structure dating from at least 476,000-years-ago, the earliest known example to date.
06/23/2023
M Mark Milligan
A study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE has provided evidence to date the age and origin of engravings discovered on a cave wall in France.
06/23/2023
M Mark Milligan
Archaeologists conducting excavations in the Coves del Toll de Moià have uncovered evidence of Neanderthal cannibalism from more than 52,000-years-ago.
05/08/2023
M Mark Milligan
A recent study led by UCL researchers has discovered that Neanderthal genetic material inherited by humans has an impact on the shape of our noses.
02/09/2023
M Mark Milligan
According to a new study, our early human ancestors used some of the oldest stone tools ever found to butcher hippos on the shores of Africa’s Lake Victoria, some 2.9-million-years-ago.
02/03/2023
M Mark Milligan
A study at the Middle Palaeolithic site of Neumark – Nord, located near Leipzig, Germany, has provided the first indisputable proof of elephant hunting by early humans.
01/30/2023
M Mark Milligan
A study by archaeologists and palaeontologists from the National Centre for Human Evolution Research (CENIEH), working in collaboration with the Atapuerca Foundation, have suggested that Neanderthals possessed symbolic capacity and kept animal skulls as hunting trophies with probable "ceremonial" intention.
01/25/2023
M Mark Milligan
A team of archaeologists from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), have found 11,000-year-old human remains in Heaning Wood Bone Cave, located in Cumbria, England.
12/30/2022
M Mark Milligan
50,000-year-old stone tools found in Pedra Furada, located in the state of Piauí in north-eastern Brazil were made by monkeys.
12/24/2022
M Mark Milligan
A study published in the Journal of Human Evolution, suggests that humans have been wearing bear skins for protection from the weather for at least 300,000 years.
12/17/2022
M Mark Milligan
300,000 years ago, during the Lower Palaeolithic, prehistoric people living in Lower Saxony, Germany, dropped tiny flint flakes whilst re-sharpening cutting tools.
11/15/2022
J Julie St Jean
Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) first roamed Europe and Western Asia nearly 430,000 years ago, until their disappearance around 40,000 years ago, only 5,000 years after the arrival of Homo sapiens (early modern humans).
10/24/2022
M Mark Milligan
Scientists have obtained the first genetic data from Palaeolithic human individuals in Britain, and the oldest human DNA from the British Isles thus far, indicating that the UK was recolonised by two distinct populations after the last Ice Age.
10/19/2022
M Mark Milligan
The first Neandertal draft genome was published in 2010. Since then, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have sequenced a further 18 genomes from 14 different archaeological sites throughout Eurasia.
10/07/2022
M Mark Milligan
Flint tools discovered more than 50 years ago in the Tunel Wielki cave have been dated to half a million years ago.
06/22/2022
M Mark Milligan
Archaeologists have unearthed 600,000-year-old evidence of Britain’s early inhabitants near Canterbury, England.
04/27/2022
M Mark Milligan
Were Neanderthals really as well adapted to a life in the cold as previously assumed, or did they prefer more temperate environmental conditions during the last Ice Age?
04/13/2022
M Mark Milligan
A new study verifies the age and origin of one of the oldest specimens of Homo erectus--a very successful early human who roamed the world for nearly 2 million years.
02/02/2022
M Mark Milligan
A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports, suggests that ancient human migration from Africa to Eurasia was not a one-time event but occurred in waves.
01/13/2022
M Mark Milligan
The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognised as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of a massive volcanic eruption in Ethiopia reveals they are much older than previously thought.
01/08/2022
M Mark Milligan
An international team of researchers have uncovered the oldest documented burial of an infant girl in Arma Veirana, a cave in the Ligurian pre-Alps of north-western Italy that reveals a Mesolithic society that honoured its young.
11/26/2021
M Mark Milligan
A pendant made from mammoth ivory may be the earliest example of decorated jewellery found in Eurasia.