New dating reveals the Petralona Skull is at least 286,000 years old, reshaping our understanding of human evolution in Europe.| The Debrief
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The first people to set foot in the Americas crossed with them not only stone technology and survival skills across the icy expanse of the Bering Strait. Along with these, a new study published in Science indicates that they also carried a genetic legacy inherited from two extinct relatives—Neanderthals and Denisovans—that could have helped them […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A minor genetic difference in one of the enzymes may have helped separate modern humans from Neanderthals and Denisovans, our closest extinct relatives, and may have even contributed to the fact that Homo sapiens thrived while the others became extinct. These are the findings of a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
40.4 – 38.2 thousand years ago “The Inheritors” is a novel by William Golding about the encounter between Neanderthals and modern humans. Like “Lord of the Flies,” it is written with a mid-twentieth century awareness that advanced societies don’t leave behind the potential for cruelty. The novel isn’t all that scientifically accurate, though: Golding’s early humans […]| Logarithmic History
We have been treating Neanderthals here as a species, Homo neanderthalensis, distinct from our own species, Homo sapiens. Some researchers elect to call Neanderthals a subspecies, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, and classify modern humans as another subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens. The line between subspecies and species is not clear cut, nor – given the way evolution works – should we […]| Logarithmic History
New research challenges Australia's early human migration timeline, highlighting conflict between genetic and archaeological evidence.| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Neanderthals used heat and water to extract fat from bones 125,000 years ago, revealing advanced food processing skills.| Archaeology News Online Magazine
722 – 684 thousand years ago We’re getting to a time on the blog when Homo erectus (and Homo ergaster, if we accept that erectus-like African specimens are another species) give way …| Logarithmic History
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante PääboMy rating: 4 of 5 starsI must admit I was easily seduced by the title, being very curious about the Neanderthals, and didn’t even realize u…| books are life
Sections The roots of modern people Human superhighways Humans’ impact on their world Apart from their occupation of Dmanisi in Georgia around 1.9 to 1.8 Ma, Europe as a whole was not the prime destination… More| Stepping Stones