The skeletal remains of an individual that lived 40,000-30,000 years ago were found in northern Italy and are believed to be that of a human/Neanderthal hybrid. If further analysis proves the study correct, the remains belong to the first known such hybrid, providing direct evidence that humans and Neanderthals interbred. The present study focuses on [...]
Some of the world’s oldest engravings of the human form – prehistoric rock art from the Italian Alps – have been brought to life by the latest digital technology at Cambridge Unviersity’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. • P • I • T • O • T • I • is a multimedia digital rock [...]
Apparently, cavemen (and cavewomen?) were dirty, filthy, ragged people. But they had very nice teeth. The dirty, ragged part is understandable. After all, in the Mesolithic period there were no washing or sewing machines. And, unless your cave was near a convenient waterfall, a shower was out of the question. That much can be gleaned [...]
University of British Columbia and Berkeley researchers have used a sophisticated new computer system to quickly reconstruct protolanguages — the rudimentary ancient tongues from which modern languages evolved. The results, which are 85 per cent accurate when compared to the painstaking manual reconstructions performed by linguists, will be published next week in the Proceedings of [...]
Noted Native American author and professor of law emeritus, Vine Deloria, writes in a personal communication: It’s probably better that so few of the ruins and remains were tied in with the Smithsonian because they give good reason to believe the ending of the Indiana Jones movie—a great warehouse where the real secrets of earth [...]
A giant stone animal has been found at an excavation site in Chengdu, southwestern China, baffling archaeologists as to what it may be. The mysterious rock beast was unearthed in the capital of Sichuan province today and is thought to be 2,000 years old. The stone animal weighed in at 8.5 tons and at 10ft [...]
Scientists have found that Native American populations — from Canada to the southern tip of Chile — arose from at least three migrations, with the majority descended entirely from a single group of First American migrants that crossed over through Beringia, a land bridge between Asia and America that existed during the ice ages, more [...]
Scientists from the Wits Institute for Human Evolution based at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg have announced the discovery of a large rock containing significant parts of a skeleton of an early human ancestor. The skeleton is believed to be the remains of ‘Karabo’, the type skeleton of Australopithecus sediba, discovered at the [...]
A cist burial (burial chamber) was opened by a team of archaeologists headed by K. P. Rao of the University of Hyderabad, as part of the ongoing archaeological excavation at the megalithic site on the campus of SR&BGNR Government Degree College here on Thursday. The team launched excavation of two stone circles and one stone [...]
One of the most compelling — and enduring — mysteries in archaeology concerns the rise of early humans and the decline of Neanderthals. For about 250,000 years, Neanderthals lived and evolved, quite successfully, in the area that is now Europe. Somewhere between 45,000 and 35,000 years ago, early humans came along. They proliferated in their [...]
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