As little as 1.5% of our genome is ‘uniquely human’ (Live Science 16/07/21)
The rest is shared with ancient human relatives such as Neanderthals
La Fundación Palarq es una entidad privada y sin ánimo de lucro que se crea con la finalidad de apoyar las Misiones en Arqueología y Paleontología Humana Españolas en el extranjero, excluyendo Europa, dentro de una perspectiva que abarca desde la etapa paleontológica a las épocas prehistóricas y las históricas en interés monumental
Anglo-Saxon cave could be UK’s ‘oldest domestic interior’ (BBC 15/07/21)
A near-complete Anglo-Saxon cave house, that is believed to date from the early ninth century and could have been home to a king, has been identified
An archaeological study reveals new aspects related to plant processing in a Neolithic settlement in Turkey (EurekAlert 13/07/21)
Researchers have discovered at the site of Çatalhöyük (Anatolia, Turkey) a wide variety of hitherto unknown wild resources
Climate changed the size of our bodies and, to some extent, our brains (Heritage Daily 11/07/21)
An interdisciplinary team of researchers, led by the Universities of Cambridge and Tübingen, has gathered measurements of body and brain size for over 300 fossils from the genus Homo found across the globe
Origin and cultural evolution of Homo erectus in East Africa (Human Paleontology)
Institute of History, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.
Location: Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
Description: The transition from Olduvayan to Acheulean and its relationship to the evolution of Homo habilis to Homo erectus is one of the most debated topics in modern Paleoanthropology.
Ancient bone carving could change the way we think about Neanderthals (Phys.org 05/07/21)
The design may be simple, but a chevron pattern etched onto a deer bone more than 50,000 years ago suggests that Neanderthals had their own artistic tradition before modern humans arrived on the scene
Scientists reconstruct Mediterranean silver trade, from Trojan War to Roman Republic (EurekAlert 04/07/21)
Scientists have reconstructed the Eastern Mediterranean silver trade, over a period including the traditional dates of the Trojan War, the founding of Rome, and the destruction of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem
Lunch Break Science #30| Habiba Chirchir
Lunch Break Science is a weekly online series featuring short lectures or interviews with Leakey Foundation scientists Lunch Break Science #30| Habiba Chirchir Meet Leakey Foundation grantee Habiba Chirchir and learn what changes in the skeletal anatomy of our ancestors tell us about their behavior. This episode of Lunch Break Science was recorded live on…
Eleven New Neolithic Hill Sites Discovered Near Göbeklitepe, Turkey (Ancient Origins 29/06/21)
The Turkish government has just announced a major archaeological discovery that could have a serious impact on the study of Neolithic Era culture in the region
Archaeologists discover 4,400-year-old serpent “staff” (Heritage Daily 29/06/21)
Archaeologists from the University of Turku, in collaboration with the Finnish Heritage Agency, and researchers from the University of Helsinki have uncovered a stone age wooden “staff” shaped like a serpent
This 5,000-year-old man had the earliest known strain of plague (Phys.org 29/06/21)
The oldest strain of Yersinia pestis—the bacteria behind the plague that caused the Black Death, which may have killed as much as half of Europe’s population in the 1300s—has been found in the remains of a 5,000-year-old hunter-gatherer
The spread of weighing systems across Western Eurasia 4,000 years ago (Phys.org 29/06/21)
A team of researchers from the University of Göttingen researched this by investigating the dissemination of weight systems throughout Western Eurasia
