Ancient Human DNA Extracted From Ice Age Caves Without Human Remains
Ancient DNA has come a long way, baby. We now don’t even need the bones any more to pick up …
Tag Archives: Neanderthal
The Neanderthal Cultural Significance Of A Decorated Crimean Raven Bone
In the last decade or so, we have illuminated Neanderthals demonstrated complex culture, such as the burial in Shanidar, were interior …
A New 400,000 Year Old Portuguese Skull May Be An Early Neanderthal Relative
A 400,000 (390-436 ka) year old Portuguese partial skull was discovered in ’14 from Gruta da Aroeira cave. The paper …
Neanderthals Used Penicillin and Aspirin To Treat Ailments
Laura Weyrich, a paleomicrobiologist at the University of Adelaide in Australia, and colleagues cleaned off the hardened plaque from the …
Just What Hominid Species Are the Two 100,000 year-old Lingjing Crania?
Writing in the journal Science, Trinkhaus and crew describe two Late Pleistocene-era 105,000 to 125,000 year-old calvaria from Lingjing, Xuchang, …
No, Neanderthals Didn’t Give Us Schizophrenia
Thanks to twin studies, schizophrenia is one of the few mental illnesses that we know have a genetic inheritance pattern. …
More Evidence To Support Neanderthals As Cannibals
Neanderthal remains from Troisième Caverne in Goyet, Belgium have cut marks that imply they were butchered and processed for consumption …
Neanderthal, The Interior Cave Decorator
A pile of hundreds of broken stalagmite pieces found deep inside Bruniquel cave, France were made by humans from about …
Modern Males Lack Neanderthal Y Chromosome Genes
Modern humans carry up to 4% Neanderthal DNA but a new paper reveals that the Neanderthal Y chromosome is distinct …
Neanderthals Deliberately Used Manganese To Start Fires
Scientists from Leiden University and Delft University of Technology conducted compositional sediment analyses of a 50,000 year old Neanderthal site, …
