Apidima 1 – A New Look At Old Skull
In the 1970’s, the Apidima Cave site in Greece was excavated by archaeologists. Lodged within a chunk of rock was …
Tag Archives: Neanderthal
Growing ‘Mini-Brains’ With Neanderthal DNA
Svante Pääbo, director of the genetics department at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany wants to …
Five Neanderthal Genomes Tell Us More Than Ever
We’ve been quite limited by our ancient DNA of Neanderthals due to limited sample size from the fossil record and …
World’s Oldest Cave Art Made By Neanderthals
In two new studies, published yesterday in Science and Science Advances, researchers Alistair Pike, an archaeologist at the University of Southampton, João Zilhão, …
Richard Coss Argues Neanderthals Didn’t Make Art Because They Were Inferior Hunters
In an article recently published in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, Richard Coss, a professor emeritus of psychology, …
Neanderthals Wielded Fire to Make Digging Sticks 170,000 Years Ago In Italy
PNAS published a new paper documenting Neanderthals wielded fire to shape wooden tools as early as 171,000 years ago. The …
The Complexity of the Peopling of the Eurasia
Science has published a new paper today looking at the peopling of Eurasia. The results of the paper challenge the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
