Cranial traumas show dramatic increase as the first cities were being built: in the 12,000 years before antiquity, the share of violent death rose at first and then fell back
The oldest hunter-gatherer basketry in southern Europe, from the Cueva de los Murciélagos and dated to the Mesolithic period, identified
Spanish Levantine societies mastered climbing and the use of equipment that minimised the risk of practising it as far back as prehistoric times
The first prehistoric wind instruments (known as flutes) in the Levant have been found at the site of Eynan-Mallaha in northern Israel
A study published on Trends in Ecology and Evolution explains cultural evolution in hunter-gatherer populations through social networks
The economy of hunter gatherers in the Mediterranean coasts between the Pleistocene and Holocene included exploitation of marine environment
A genomic analysis in samples of Neanderthals and modern humans shows a decrease in ADHD-associated genetic variants
The recent results of the excavation of Figueira Brava (Portugal) now confirm that Neanderthals habitually used marine resources
