AncientPages.com – Depending upon how you do the counting, there are around 9 million species on Earth, from the simplest single-celled organisms to humans. It’s reassuring to imagine that complex bodies and brains like ours are the inevitable consequence of evolution, as if evolution
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Limestone spheroids, enigmatic lithic artifacts from the ancient past, have perplexed archaeologists for years. While they span from the Oldowan to the Middle Paleolithic, the purpose behind their creation remains a subject of intense debate.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Curly hair does more than simply look good. It may explain how early humans stayed cool while conserving water, according to researchers who studied the role human hair textures play in regulating body temperature. The
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have re-examined Neanderthals’ perplexing Flower Burial at Shanidar Cave and made a fascinating discovery. The story started when researchers unearthed the well-preserved upper body skeleton of an adult Neanderthal who lived about 70,000 years
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Painstaking archaeological exploration is a familiar, often widely admired, method of unearthing history. Less celebrated, but also invaluable, is the piecing together of fragments of ancient languages and analyzing how they changed over thousands of
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study published in the journal Science finds that around 1.12 million years ago a massive cooling event in the North Atlantic and corresponding shifts in climate, vegetation and food resources disrupted early
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An international team of scientists has found evidence that past changes in atmospheric CO2 and corresponding shifts in climate and vegetation played a key role in determining when and where early human species interbred. Modern-day
AncientPages.com – Geneticists have now firmly established that roughly two percent of the DNA of all living non-African people comes from our Neanderthal cousins. It’s difficult to imagine why our early ancestors would have mated with them. Neanderthals were a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Of the six or more different species of early humans, all belonging to the genus Homo, only we Homo sapiens have managed to survive. A study combining climate modeling and the fossil record in search
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A 300,000-year-old hunting weapon has shone a new light on early humans as woodworking masters, according to a new study. State-of-the-art analysis of a double-pointed wooden throwing stick, found in Schöningen in Germany three decades
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Long before the invention of agriculture, humans already knew how to process cereals and other wild plants into a flour suitable for food—and now there’s new evidence they did so long before scientists previously thought.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Were anatomically modern humans the only ones who knew how to turn bone into tools? A discovery by an international team at the Chez-Pinaud-Jonzac Neanderthal site settles the question. Published in PLOS ONE, it sheds light
