Neanderthals indeed painted Andalusia’s Cueva de Ardales
[image: Flowstone formation in the Sala de las Estrellas at Cueva de Ardales (Malaga, Andalusia), with the traces of red pigment analysed and discussed in the article.] IMAGE: FLOWSTONE FORMATION IN THE SALA DE LAS ESTRELLAS AT CUEVA DE ARDALES (MALAGA, ANDALUSIA), WITH THE TRACES OF RED PIGMENT ANALYSED AND DISCUSSED IN THE ARTICLE. © JOÃO ZILHÃO, ICREA view more CREDIT: © JOÃO ZILHÃO, ICREA The origin and date of appearance of prehistoric cave art are the subjects of ongoing debate. Spain’s Cueva de Ardales is one point of discussion. There a flowstone formation is stained ... read more
Print Email App [image: Geographic origin, blood group and dating of individuals studied] IMAGE: RH BLOOD GROUP SYSTEM ANALYSIS (+ = FULL RH(D) ANTIGEN ; + PARTIAL = PARTIAL RH(D) ANTIGEN / - = MISSING RH(D) ANTIGEN) SUGGESTED RISK OF HAEMOLYTIC DISEASE OF THE FETUS AND NEWBORN AMONG NEANDERTALS AND REVEALED INTERBREEDING (POSSIBLY IN THE LEVANT), TRACES OF WHICH MIGHT BE FOUND IN MODERN HUMANS FROM AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA. IN THREE OF THE INDIVIDUALS, THE PRESENCE OF A ‘NON-SECRETOR’ ALLELE, ASSOCIATED WITH PROTECTION FROM CERTAIN VIRUSES, SUGGESTS SELECTIVE PRESSURE EXER... read more
Discovery from Unicorn Cave in Lower Saxony sheds new light on ancestors' cognitive abilities UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN Research News SHARE PRINT E-MAIL [image: IMAGE] IMAGE: THE EINHORNHÖHLE (UNICORN CAVE), BLAUE GROTTO. IN THE MIDDLE AGES, ANIMAL BONES FROM THE ICE-AGE WERE FOUND, WHICH TREASURE HUNTERS MISTOOK FOR UNICORN BONES AND SOLD AS POSSESSING MEDICINAL PROPERTIES,... view more CREDIT: HTTPS://COMMONS.WIKIMEDIA.ORG/WIKI/FILE:EHH-WIKI001_C_GUFEV.JPG (CC BY-SA 4.0) Since the discovery of the first fossil remains in the 19th century, the image of the Neanderthal has... read more
CELL PRESS Research News A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University. The largest of known *Homo* skulls, scientists now say this skull represents a newly discovered human species named *Homo longi* or "Dragon Man." Their findings, appearing in three papers publishing June 25 in the journal *The Innovation*, suggest that the *Homo longi* lineage may be our closest relatives--and has the potential to reshape our understanding of human evolution. "The Harbin fossil is one of the most complete hum... read more
MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY Research News [image: IMAGE] IMAGE: RESEARCHERS ZENOBIA JACOBS, BO LI AND KIERAN O'GORMAN COLLECTING SEDIMENT SAMPLES IN THE MAIN CHAMBER. view more CREDIT: RICHARD G. ROBERTS Denisova Cave is located in the Altai Mountains in southern Siberia and is famous for the discovery of Denisovans, an extinct form of archaic humans that is thought to have occupied large parts of central and eastern Asia. Neandertal remains have also been found at the site, as well as a bone from a child who had a Neandertal mother and Denisovan father, ... read more
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE Research News SHARE PRINT E-MAIL In two companion studies, researchers reveal a previously unknown population of archaic hominin- the "Nesher Ramla *Homo*" - from a recently excavated site in Israel dated to roughly 140,000 to 120,000 years ago. Analysis of both the fossils and associated artifacts from the site suggests that the group represents a last surviving population of Middle Pleistocene *Homo*, characterized by a distinctive combination of Neanderthal and archaic human features and technology that until only rece... read more
Research News [image: IMAGE] IMAGE: .STATIC SKULL & MANDIBLE & PARIETAL ORTHOGRAPHIC. view more CREDIT: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY - The discovery of a new Homo group in this region, which resembles Pre-Neanderthal populations in Europe, challenges the prevailing hypothesis that Neanderthals originated from Europe, suggesting that at least some of the Neanderthals' ancestors actually came from the Levant. - The new finding suggests that two types of Homo groups lived side by side in the Levant for more than 100,000 years (200-100,000 years ago), sharing knowledge ... read more
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN - THE FACULTY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES Research News SHARE PRINT E-MAIL Thousands of years ago, archaic humans such as Neanderthals and Denisovans went extinct. But before that, they interbred with the ancestors of present-day humans, who still to this day carry genetic mutations from the extinct species. Over 40 percent of the Neanderthal genome is thought to have survived in different present-day humans of non-African descent, but spread out so that any individual genome is only composed of up to two percent Neanderthal material. Some human... read more
A ball of 4,000-year-old hair frozen in time tangled around a whalebone comb led to the first ever reconstruction of an ancient human genome just over a decade ago. The hair, which was preserved in arctic permafrost in Greenland, was collected in the 1980s and stored at a museum in Denmark. It wasn't until 2010 that evolutionary biologist Professor Eske Willerslev was able to use pioneering shotgun DNA sequencing to reconstruct the genetic history of the hair. He found it came from a man from the earliest known people to settle in Greenland known as the Saqqaq culture. It was th... read more
Research News - International team used the stomach bacteria Helicobacter pylori as a biomarker for ancient human migrations - DNA sequences catalogued at University of Warwick in EnteroBase, a public genomes database, demonstrate that a migration of Siberians to the Americas occurred approximately 12,000 years ago - Project began in 2000s but new statistical techniques allowed researchers to reconstruct and date the migrations of Siberian Helicobacter pylori Early migrations of humans to the Americas from Siberia around 12,000 years ago have been... read more
An international research team led by Professor Dr Frank Schäbitz has published a climate reconstruction of the last 200,000 years for Ethiopia. This means that high-resolution data are now available for the period when early *Homo sapiens*, our ancestors, made their way from Africa to Europe and Asia. Schäbitz and his colleagues determined the dates using a drill core of lake sediments deposited in southern Ethiopia's Chew Bahir Basin, which lies near human fossil sites. Temporal resolution of the samples, reaching ne... read more
Probably the find is the only evidence in the world that ancient people hunted Pleistocene small cave bears URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY Research News SHARE PRINT E-MAIL [image: IMAGE] IMAGE: SUCH ARROWHEAD (LEFT) WAS PROBABLY USED TO KILL THE BEAR. view more CREDIT: URFU / ELIZAVETA VERETENNIKOVA. Russian paleontologists discovered the skull of a Pleistocene small cave bear with artificial damage in the Imanay Cave (Bashkiria, Russia). A bear aged 9-10 years was killed with a spear during hibernation about 35 thousand years ago. If the assumptions of scientists are confirmed,... read more
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