Early human habitats linked to past climate shifts. A study published in Nature by an international team of scientists provides clear evidence
Archeological findings that could rewrite the history of bird domestication: the oldest type of poultry ever domesticated may have been geese
A population hub out of Africa explains East Asian lineages in Europe 45 KYA; the study has been published on Genome Biology and Evolution
The emergence and spread of agriculture in the Neolithic had a revolutionary impact on the development of human society, and it provided a solid economic basis for the origin and development of human civilization. In southern China, the original crop was rice, but over time, millet cultivation gradually spread
5,000-year population history of Xinjiang brought to light in new ancient DNA study, that has been published on Science
The first attempt to apply cosmogenic nuclide isochron-burial dating directly to lithic tools from the Olduvai Gorge
Tools at Aranbaltza offer clues to Neanderthal extinction in the Iberian Peninsula, even before Homo sapiens arrived
The colored skeletons of Çatalhöyük: new insights about how the inhabitants of the “oldest city in the world” buried their dead
A paper in the journal The Anatomical Record presents a taphonomic-forensic analysis of the skulls from the Sima de los Huesos
The pattern of North-South extinction in Hipparion ambiguum – an extinct genus of the Equidae family – is confirmed