First evidence that giant ostrich-like birds once roamed Europe comes from the Taurida Cave in Crimea; that was discovered only the last summer
The archaeological site of ‘Ein Qashish in northern Israel was a place of repeated Neanderthal occupation and use during the Middle Paleolithic
Researchers have studied the evidence of prehistoric societies in the Neolithic Period in the Iberian Peninsula from the perspective of gender
Two children’s milk teeth from a site in north eastern Siberia have revealed a previously unknown group of people lived there during the last Ice Age
New research reveals that coprolites from Çatalhöyük have provided the earliest evidence for intestinal parasite infection in the mainland Near East
A new hypothesis for Neanderthal extinction supported by population modelling is put forward in a new study by Anna Degioanni from Aix Marseille Université, France and colleagues, published May 29, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.
New article suggests wetter climates may have allowed Homo sapiens to expand across the deserts of Central Asia by 50-30,000 years ago
Anatomically modern humans at the Klasies River Cave, in South Africa’s southern Cape, were roasting and eating plant starch
Neanderthals and modern humans diverged at least 800,000 years ago, substantially earlier than indicated by most DNA-based estimates
A new study, concerning the cave of Bàsura at Toirano and its fossil traces, identifies crawling behaviours from around 14,000 years ago
