Abel Moclán, a researcher at CENIEH, is the lead author of a paper published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews which undertook a zooarchaeological and taphonomic study of the Neanderthal Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter site (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid), some 76,000 years old, whose results indicate that these Neanderthals mainly hunted large bovids and cervids
In 2015, archaeologists from the University of Hasanuddin in Makassar, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, uncovered the skeleton of a woman buried in a limestone cave. Studies revealed the person from Leang Panninge, or “Bat Cave,” was 17 or 18 years old when she died some 7,200 years ago
Archaeologists excavating the ancient port settlement and cemetery of Marea in Egypt have discovered a complex urban precinct
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
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
The rest is shared with ancient human relatives such as Neanderthals
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
Researchers have discovered at the site of Çatalhöyük (Anatolia, Turkey) a wide variety of hitherto unknown wild resources
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
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 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 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…
