The Hidden Life of Neolithic Women Seen Via Their Humeri
In this week’s journal Science Advances, University of Cambridge researchers compared the bones of women. Their sample included Central European …
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Göbekli Tepe Skull Cult
The internet has been buzzing about a potential 11,500-12,000 year old skull cult from Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. Göbekli Tepe …
Neolithic Class Divisions of Central Europe
This week PNAS published evidence of social stratification and hereditary inequality from over 7,000 years ago in Central Europe. Lead author, …
Molecular Evidence For Tuberculosis From 9,000 Year Old Remains From Atlit-Yam, Israel
If you look at the time stamp of both Bora‘s and Greg Laden‘s posts, you’d notice that they just broke …
MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry Of Ötzi/Oetzi The Iceman’s Clothing
Whatever you call him Ötzi, Oetzi or simply the 5,300 year old Tyrolean iceman mummy found in the Alps in …
Extending The Domestication Of Sheep & Goats In Mediterranean By 1,000 Years
Last week, I shared with you all some research on the Neolithic/agricultural revolution in Iran and Turkey, specifically on barley …
New Results On The Domestication Of Barley In Iran & Cattle In Turkey
Two papers have come out this week that refine our understanding of the agricultural revolution in the Neolithic Near East. …
Neolithic Men from Talheim, Germany fought for Women
A new paper in the journal Antiquity interprets the remains of 34 found buried in the village of Talheim, in …
The ‘Oldest’ known African human sacrifice
The Neolithic revolution is a really important transition in human prehistory, one that is identified by an increase in technology. …
Rat genetics enlighten human migrations as far back as the Neolithic
Ken Aplin of Australia’s national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, has been analyzing the mtDNA of …
