13,000 Year Old Tooth Filling Are The Oldest Evidence Of Dentistry Known
A pair of 13,000-year-old incisors found contain the earliest known use of fillings – made out of bitumen, or asphalt/cement. …
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The Resilience of The Awá Against Modernity
Over at the Washington Post, there’s an interesting article documenting how two Amazonian Awá tribeswomen have escaped the modern life …
Earliest Evidence of Warfare
Researchers from the University of Cambridge Leverhulme Center for Human Evolutionary Studies have published the findings of the remains of …
Abstract Chauvet Cave Painting Represent A 36,000 Year Old Volcano
A team of French geologists and paleontologists and led by Jean-Michel Geneste, published in PLoS One that they believe that they have …
6,000 Year Old Death Pit Indicates Some Neolithic People Weren’t So Egalitarian
Circular burial pits like the one shown above were common during the Neolithic period in Central and Western Europe some …
Say Hello to Australopithecus deyiremeda, A Newly Discovered 3.4 Million Year Old Hominid
A study published in Nature today announces the 2011 discovery of Australopithecus deyiremeda a hominid that lived between 3.3 and 3.5 …
A Neandertal Ancestor for a Early European
At last week’s Biology of Genomes meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, Qiaomei Fu, a palaeogenomicist at Harvard Medical …
Neandertal Post-Mortem Modification
A study published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology has for the first time analysed the fragments of three …
130,000 Year Old Eagle Claw Jewelry From Krapina Neandertals
Krapina Neandertals may have manipulated white-tailed eagle talons to make jewelry 130,000 years ago, before the appearance of modern human …
HSV-1 Phylogenetics As A Model for Human Migrations
This has been done before using H. pylori as a model, but it is remarkable nonetheless to see how innovative …
