“Boomerang” made from mammoth tusk is likely one of the oldest known in Europe at around 40,000 years old, per analysis of this artifact from Obłazowa Cave, a Polish Upper Paleolithic cave
Researchers estimate that early humans began smoking meat to extend its shelf life as long as a million years ago
“Florence and Europe. Arts of the Eighteenth Century at the Uffizi”, the exhibition with masterpieces by Goya, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Le Brun, Liotard, Mengs and many other masters
Fire in the Ice Age: evidence from the Epigravettian at Korman’ 9, Middle Dniester Valley, Ukraine; a study published in Geoarchaeology
In-depth chemical analysis of three key 12th century medieval bronze doors by Barisanus of Trani uncovers which is the oldest and reveals how they were made; the analysed doors are from Trani, Ravello, Monreale
Atapuerca rewrites the history of Europe’s first inhabitants with the oldest known face in Western Europe: a fossil of Homo affinis erectus from Sima del Elefante
Time and life cycles reflected in the grinding stones of earliest Neolithic communities found in Central Europe
Evidence of cannibalism 18,000 years ago, from Maszycka Cave; the study has been published in Scientific Reports
Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV): an Eneolithic population dated 4.500-3.500 BCE and a missing link in Indo-European languages’ history found, according to a study published in Nature
Early humans influenced the availability of meat and scavenging animals, in ecosystems 130,000 to 20,000 years ago
