Child’s Bones Buried 40,000 Years Ago Solve a Longstanding Neanderthal Mystery (Science Alert 12/10/20)
We don’t know whether it was a boy or a girl. But this ancient child, a Neanderthal, only made it to about two years of age.
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
The oldest place name sign in the world (Idw News 12/3/20)
Together with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, researchers from the University of Bonn have deciphered the oldest place name sign in the world. An inscription from the time of the emergence of the Egyptian state in the late fourth millennium B.C. from the Wadi el Malik east of Aswan, which is still barely explored archaeologically,…
The Impact of Neandertal DNA on Human Health ( Heritage Daily 12/8/20)
A researcher at the University of Tartu described new associations between Neandertal DNA and autoimmune diseases, prostate cancer and type 2 diabetes.
PALARQ FOUNDATION GRANTS 59 PROJECTS
The entity aims to help the work related to archaeology and human palaeontology that Spanish teams are carrying out outside Europe In this call, 15 new projects are incorporated Fundación Palarq, a private and non-profit organization that supports the missions in archaeology and human palaeontology of Spanish researchers, has decided to subsidize a total of…
Lunch Break Science #16| Isaiah Nengo
Lunch Break Science is a weekly online series featuring short lectures or interviews with Leakey Foundation scientists Lunch Break Science #16| Isaiah Nengo Meet Leakey Foundation grantee Isaiah Nengo and learn about his work uncovering fossil primates in Kenya.
‘Sistine Chapel of the ancients’ rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest (The Guardian 11/29/20)
Tens of thousands of ice age paintings across a cliff face shed light on people and animals from 12,500 years ago.
Neanderthal Thumbs Were Better Adapted to Holding Tools With Handles (Scitechdaily 11/30/20))
Neanderthal thumbs were better adapted to holding tools in the same way that we hold a hammer, according to a paper published in Scientific Reports.
Archaeologists find 4,500 bodies in an ancient Islamic necropolis hidden for more than 1,000 years in Spain (DailyMail 11/29/20)
Experts discovered the 4,500 bodies in Tauste district near Zaragoza in Spain Andalusian Islamic era spanned from 711-1492 so the tombs are 1,000 years old Remains will be cataloged, stored for research and studied over coming years
First exhaustive review of fossils recovered from Iberian archaeological sites (EurekAlert 11/24/20)
An interdisciplinary team from several Spanish universities and research centres has analysed more than 600 fossils recovered from across the Iberian Peninsula.
Bodies of man and his slave unearthed from ashes at Pompeii (Phys.org 11/21/20)
Skeletal remains of what are believed to have been a rich man and his male slave attempting to escape death from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago have been discovered in Pompeii, officials at the archaeological park in Italy said Saturday.
Scientists discover oldest known human-made nanostructures in ancient artifacts in Tamil Nadu (The Hindu 11/21/20 )
Research reveals that these coatings are made of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) which have enabled the layer to last more than 2,600 years.
Lunch Break Science #15| Jacinta Beehner
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