The fossil was discovered on Monday (July 2018) evening in the Arago Cave, a vast prehistoric grotto at Tautavel on the French side of the Pyrenees mountains bordering Spain. Continue reading “560,000-year-old milk tooth found in France”
Analysis of 3800-year-old Yersinia pestis genomes suggests Bronze Age origin for bubonic plague
Here we present the ‘Abstract‘ of the corresponding paper by Maria A. Spyrou, Rezeda I. Tukhbatova, Chuan-Chao Wang, Aida Andrades Valtueña, Aditya K. Lankapalli, Vitaly V. Kondrashin, Victor A. Tsybin, Aleksandr Khokhlov, Denise Kühnert, Alexander Herbig, Kirsten I. Bos & Johannes Krause. Continue reading “Analysis of 3800-year-old Yersinia pestis genomes suggests Bronze Age origin for bubonic plague”
Resurrecting Surviving Neandertal Lineages from Modern Human Genomes
Here we present the ‘Abstract’ of the corresponding paper by Benjamin Vernot, Joshua M. Akey. Continue reading “Resurrecting Surviving Neandertal Lineages from Modern Human Genomes”
The best radiocarbon-dated site in all recent Iberian prehistory
Experts from the University of Seville have reconstructed the social processes and cultural phenomena that occurred in the archeological site of Valencina (Andalusia) between the 32nd and 24th centuries BCE. Continue reading “The best radiocarbon-dated site in all recent Iberian prehistory”
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens coexisted for less than 1000 years in the Cantabrian Region
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens could not have coexisted for more than a millennium in the Cantabrian Region, which reduces significantly the possibilities for interaction between the two groups and tends to reinforce the hypothesis of an intrinsic cause of extinction, according to a study based on radiocarbon dates from thirteen archaeological sites in this area of southwestern Europe. Continue reading “Neanderthals and Homo sapiens coexisted for less than 1000 years in the Cantabrian Region”
Rare prehistoric site uncovered in central Israel
A rare and important prehistoric site, roughly half of a million years old, extending over about 10 dunams, was uncovered during the last few months in Jaljulia. Continue reading “Rare prehistoric site uncovered in central Israel”
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