New evidence of plant food processing in Italy during Neanderthal-to-Homo sapiens period Long before the invention of agriculture, humans already knew how to process cereals and other wild plants into a flour suitable for food—and now there’s new evidence they did so long before scientists was previously thought. Published in Quaternary Science Reviews, an Italian-led study … Read more
700,000-Year-Old human Skull Found In Greece Completely Shatters ‘Out Of Africa Theory’ Nature has always been a random architect. Entering Petralona Cave, which was formed in the limestone of Katsika Hill about a million years ago, makes this very clear. The cavern, which is known as “the red-rock cave” because of the color the bauxite … Read more
Stone tools reflect three waves of migration of the earliest Homo sapiens into Europe It was long thought that modern humans first ventured into Europe about 42,000 years ago, but newly analyzed tools from the Stone Age have upended this idea. Now, evidence suggests that modern humans trekked into Europe in three waves between 54,000 … Read more
Bone tool found in Spain suggests prehistoric tailoring existed 40,000 years ago Almost 40,000 years ago, some of the earliest modern humans to settle in Spain wanted to strut their stuff in lovely fitted outfits that showed their charms. No throwing some lousy pelts over the shoulder that would make them look fat – that’s … Read more
Oldest Human Discovered: Facial Reconstruction of Ancient Egyptian Who Lived 30,000 Years Ago Uncovered A lifelike facial approximation of a man who lived 30,000 years ago in what is now Egypt may offer clues about human evolution. In 1980, archaeologists unearthed the man’s skeletal remains at Nazlet Khater 2, an archaeological site in Egypt’s Nile … Read more
Ancient Human Footprints Unearthed: Tracing the Journey of Early Migration in Saudi Arabia Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest human footprints ever found in the Arabian peninsula. They are believed to be around 120,000 years old and lie at the site of an ancient lake in the modern-day Nefud Desert. This region was crucial in the … Read more
Ancient DNA puts a face on the mysterious Denisovans, extinct cousins of Neanderthals Researchers have been able to bring the now-extinct cousins of Homo sapiens, the Denisovans, back to life (of sorts)—offering us the first glimpse at what these little-understood hominids would have looked like tens of thousands of years after they went extinct. Up … Read more