Adam Rutherford’s A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
If you have been following this blog along with others, like GNXP, you can tell that the field of ancient …
Monthly Archives: October 2017
Neanderthal Introgression Gave Us Back Even More Ancient DNA
Tony Capra of Vanderbilt University in Nashville hypothesized last week at the annual meeting of The American Society of Human …
The Saudian Arabian Stonehedge Unveiled By Google Earth
In the November issue of Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, researchers examining the Saudi Arabian desert have found around 400 unreported stone …
Neanderthal Got By With a Little Help from Friends
Shanidar 1 is a 50,000 years Neandertal which was discovered in by Ralph Solecki in 1957 during excavations at Shanidar …
Tianyuan Man Genome Reveals The Nuances of Asian Prehistory
A new study in Current Biology analyzed the entire genome of the Tianyuan man who was found near Beijing, China …
On the Evolution of Skin Tones In Africa
Most associate dark skin with African peoples, but there are a wide variety of populations who represent an even wider …
Vindija 33.19’s Genome Shows We Are More Neanderthal Than We Thought
Two new, fascinating papers on Neanderthal genetic introgression and the sequencing of an entire Neanderthal’s genome came out this last …
