Neanderthals Spanish cave art was made by Neanderthals, study confirms (The Guardian 08/2/2021)
Study says pigments on cave stalagmites were applied through ‘splattering and blowing’ more than 60,000 years ago
Archaeologists discover new urban precinct in Egyptian settlement of Marea (Heritage Daily 27/07/21)
Archaeologists excavating the ancient port settlement and cemetery of Marea in Egypt have discovered a complex urban precinct
Roman road discovered in the Venice lagoon (Phys.org 22/07/21)
The findings suggest that extensive settlements may have been present in the Venice Lagoon centuries before the founding of Venice began in the fifth century
Ancient ‘sunken city’ discovered in Egypt (CNN 20/07/21)
Divers have discovered rare remains of a military vessel in the ancient sunken city of Thônis-Heracleion — once Egypt‘s largest port on the Mediterranean — and a funerary complex illustrating the presence of Greek merchants
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
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
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