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Here we present selected parts of the interesting paper titled “A Revised Timescale for Human Evolution Based on Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes”, by Qiaomei Fu et al. Continue reading “Major events in human evolution occurred far earlier than previously thought, study suggests”
This post is a presentation of the Upper Palaeolithic Archaeology of South West England. Continue reading “South West England – Upper Palaeolithic Archaeology (c.40–10,000 BP)”
Ancient periods of cold and dry climate helped our species replace Neanderthals in Europe, a study suggests. Continue reading “Cold and dry climate could have been responsible for the extinction of Neanderthals”
For decades, researchers believed the Western Hemisphere was settled by humans roughly 13,500 years ago, a theory based largely upon the widespread distribution of Clovis artifacts dated to that time. Clovis artifacts are distinctive prehistoric stone tools so named because they were initially found near Clovis, New Mexico, in the 1920s but have since been identified throughout North and South America. Continue reading “Artifacts older-than-Clovis at the Gault site, Texas, USA”
An international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History has analyzed two 3,800-year-old Y. pestis genomes that suggest a Bronze Age origin for bubonic plague. Continue reading “Bubonic plague had a Bronze Age origin, study finds”
The biological makeup of humans in East Asia is shaping up to be a very complex story, with greater diversity and more distant contacts than previously known, according to a study analyzing the genome of a man that died in the Tianyuan Cave near Beijing, China 40,000 years ago. Continue reading “The Tianyuan Cave man; the earliest (40,000 yBP) ancient DNA from East Asia and what we have learned from it”
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