When did the genetic variations that make us human emerge? A new study on the subject was published on Scientific Reports
Defining the Anthropocene – Radioactive traces in ocean materials mark the start of the modern age; a new study has been published on Scientific Reports
Olive Trees Were First Domesticated 7,000 Years Ago. Earliest evidence for cultivation of a fruit tree, according to researchers
The first successfully sequenced human genome from a Pompeiian n individual who died after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE
Bar-Ilan University study provides definitive evidence of the origin of the alabaster whose quality met Herod’s lavish standards
Analysis of Bronze Age daggers has shown that they were used for processing animal carcasses and not as non-functional symbols of identity and status, as previously thought
The Middle Pleistocene population of Europe could have reached 25,000 individuals; a new study has been published on Scientific Reports
Marine mollusc shells reveal how prehistoric humans adapted to intense climate change; the study has been published on Scientific Reports
The colored skeletons of Çatalhöyük: new insights about how the inhabitants of the “oldest city in the world” buried their dead
A paper in Scientific Reports concludes that Homo antecessor had a shoulders development analogous to that in Homo sapiens, although its growth was faster
