15000-Year-Old Rock Art ‘Sanctuary’ Uncovered in Spanish Cave (Ancient Origins 02/13/20)
In the autonomous region of Catalonia, Spain, archaeologists have uncovered a treasure trove of prehistoric rock art that is around 15,000 years old
How did the last Neanderthals live? (BBC News 01/29/20)
In many ways, the last surviving Neanderthals are a mystery. But four caves in Gibraltar have given an unprecedented insight into what their lives might have been like.
A massacre of early Neolithic farmers in the high Pyrenees at Els Trocs, Spain (Nature 02/07/20)
At the site of Els Trocs in the Spanish Pyrenees, rivalling groups of either migrating early farmers or farmers and indigenous hunter-gatherers collided violently around 5300 BCE.
This 7,000-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered, archaeologists say (CNN 02/04/20)
(CNN): Archaeologists have discovered a 7,000-year-old Neolithic well in eastern Europe, which they believe is the oldest wooden structure in the world.
Prado Vargas, one of the most spectacular karst complexes in Europe
The Prado Vargas site is located in the Merindad de Sotoscueva, forming part of Ojo Guareña, one of the most spectacular karst complexes in Europe, where this cavity called Prado Vargas opens. It is a fossilized emergence that closes a steeply sloping meadow that slides down to the Trema River. A place where its valleys,…
A new genetic analysis reveals that modern Africans have some Neandertal DNA too ( Science News 01/31/20)
Africans today possess more Neandertal ancestry than previously thought, a new analysis shows, though still not as much as most people outside of Africa.
Stone Tools Reveal Epic Trek of Nomadic Neanderthals (Ancient Origins 01/29/20)
We reveal another in our new study of the Neanderthals who lived in Chagyrskaya Cave in southern Siberia around 54,000 years ago.
Archaeological research on the port areas of ancient Empúries
This project’s main objective is the study of the different port areas related to the various population centres established in Empúries between the 6th century BC, when the Foceian commercial Emporium was created, and the 7th and 8th centuries AD, a time of profound transformation that marks the passage to the medieval period. Knowledge of…
Ancient DNA from West Africa Adds to Picture of Humans’ Rise (The New York times 01/22/20)
From a burial site in Cameroon, archaeologists recovered human genetic material dating as far back as 8,000 years.
Microstratigraphy of the Q level homes in l’Abric Romaní de Capellades (Barcelona)
The manufacture of large-format thin sheets of the Abric Romani homes is a project that will allow us to determine the number of human occupations in Mousterian Qa level. This objective is focused on the analysis of the record in the sediments produced by the use of fire. The thin sheets of the sediments of…
PREHISTORIC HUMANS ATE BONE MARROW LIKE CANNED SOUP 400,000 YEARS AGO (Archaeology World 01/16/20)
A new study has found that prehistoric humans have preserved bone marrow in their caves for up to nine weeks as a soup pot.
The necropolis of Las Huesas. Investigating the funeral ritual of the aborigines of Gran Canaria
The first population of the Canary Islands was led by Berber groups from North Africa around the first centuries of the Age Las Huesas, a necropolis of the aborigines of Gran Canaria First time on the island, evidence of ritual deposits of domestic fauna in burial contexts is identified Location of the cemetery of Las…