How Neanderthals Met the Ice Age on Every Front www.anthropology.net/p/how-neande...

How Monumental Art Helped Humans Thrive in Arabia’s Harshest Desert www.anthropology.net/p/how-monume...

The problem skulls from Yunxian www.johnhawks.net/p/the-proble...

🧪🏺🦣 Re-dating using HYP on Lagar Velho suggests charcoal & most fauna unassociated (except red-stained rabbit). Child's anatomy still being described as "mosaic" with Neanderthal features, pointing to "shared ancestry". What are general thoughts on the latter? www.science.org/doi/full/10....

When Homo habilis Hid from Leopards: A New Look at Our Prey Past www.anthropology.net/p/when-homo-...

Beyond DNA: How Culture May Be Reshaping the Course of Human Evolution www.anthropology.net/p/beyond-dna...

Cave Palaeolithic of the Ural Mountains The Ural Mountains are of fundamental importance for studying early human migrations along the geographical limits between Europe and Asia. Geological processes and past climates gave rise to numerous caves, mostly in Palaeozoic carbonate formations ...

Islands at the Edge of Time: How Papua New Guineans Carry One of Humanity’s Oldest Genetic Stories www.anthropology.net/p/islands-at...

Denisovan Genes and the Ancient Geography of Disease www.anthropology.net/p/denisovan-...

Goats on the Edge: Neanderthals, Mountain Hunts, and the Early Roots of Human Ingenuity www.anthropology.net/p/goats-on-t...

Hair, Stone, and Memory: A 27,000-Year-Old Figurine from Northern France www.anthropology.net/p/hair-stone...

The Attention Gap: Tracing the Neurogenetic Roots of Homo sapiens’ Focus www.anthropology.net/p/the-attent...

Voices From Deep Time www.anthropology.net/p/voices-fro...

Stones and Fire in the West African Savanna www.anthropology.net/p/stones-and...

What matters in humanity's attempts to increase lifespan? www.johnhawks.net/p/what-matte...

Nice Middle Palaeolithic refits from India, like a 3d jigsaw, this is piecing back together stone tools made by people tens of thousands of years ago. By Akash Pandey. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

One of the oldest known musical instruments: a Palaeolithic flute made from a vulture bone some 38,000 years ago! This is one of 8 known flutes found on the Swabian Jura. The finds suggest that music played an important role in this region. 🧵1/2 📷 me #archaeology #music 🏺

The gene from Denisovan to Neanderthal to modern mucus www.johnhawks.net/p/the-gene-f...

A Child Between Worlds: The Skhūl Fossil and the Earliest Evidence of Sapiens-Neanderthal Interbreeding www.anthropology.net/p/a-child-be...

International Workshop „Origins and Development of the Eurasian Initial Upper Palaeolithic“

Tracing the transition: personal ornaments and bone tools at the onset of the upper Paleolithic

Potential Evidence of Initial Upper Paleolithic at Aghitu-3, Armenia In this paper, we present a study of the lithic assemblage from archaeological horizon (AH) VII at Aghitu-3 Cave and explore its possible relationship to the Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) based on a detailed lithic analysis ...

Last week Nature published a description of teeth from the Ledi-Geraru field area of Ethiopia by Brian Villmoare and a team of collaborators. The team found the thirteen teeth in 2015 and 2018 and report that they come from a range of times from 2.78 million to 2.59 million years ago ...

Do giant handaxes from Lower Palaeolithic Britain indicate cognitive development of early hominins? 🏺 #Archaeology Find out in this @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #FestivalofArchaeology thread 1/8 🧵

La Cotte de St Brelade: Excavations are getting underway again at this key Palaeolithic site on Jersey. Here's a vintage photo of the site from Joseph Sinel's Prehistoric Times.

Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000–80,000 years ago: intentional human burial and the use of ochre in burial contexts www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Did #Neanderthals enjoy mustard? #NationalMustardDay 🏺 #Archaeology Analysis of plant remains from #Palaeolithic Franchthi and Shanidar Caves indicates wild mustards were intentionally processed and added to foods to give a bitter, astringent taste. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Markings from 70 kya to see if memory systems were used Identifying potential palaeolithic artificial memory systems via Spatial statistics: Implications for the origin of quantification🏺🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1... Suggests cognitive capabilities for information storage and retrieval

Middle Palaeolithic Human occupations, cultural behaviours and demogra... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One of the tough things about selling the Palaeolithic without hyperbole, or not ending up on the cutting room floor, is that fine grained anthropogenic deposits like Cora's square metre of gritty, light reddish-grey wonder are our pyramids, are our hanging gardens, are our pompeiis. 🏺🦣

Denisovan HLA and its role in immunity www.johnhawks.net/p/denisovan-...

Human Prey Choice in the Levantine Middle Paleolithic: Insights From Human-Generated, Carnivore-Generated, and Natural Trap Bone Accumulations ...

Paleolithic hominin occupations and Quaternary geomorphological evolution in the NE Ararat Depression (Armenia) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This study presents groundbreaking archaeological and geochronological findings from the Ravne 3 Tunnel Complex in Visoko, Bosnia-Herzegovina. UraniumThorium dating of the stalagmite growing atop a dry wall yields a minimum age of 19,000 ± 1,000 years ...

This study explores a body of evidence regarding the hunting and meat processing of Mammuthus primigenius (woolly mammoth) in Eastern European river basins before, during, and after the Last Glacial Maximum. Evidence of mammoth mass and weight, river site selection ...

The Appetite That Preceded the Tooth: How Hominins Chewed Their Way Into Evolution www.anthropology.net/p/the-appeti...

🚨New paper alert!🧪 We explore the #Aurignacian at Grotta della Cala (southern Italy), providing robust evidence of human settlement shortly after the #CampanianIgnimbrite eruption (ca. 40 ka). 1/5 🌋 @tommyhigham.bsky.social @lucdoyon.bsky.social @boneslab.bsky.social & the University of Siena

Soooo happy to finally see Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age has a streaming date: November 26! I’m so happy for you all to see this amazing show and I am super proud to be once again among the amazing group of talented people who put this show together! 😍😍😍

This is a super thread that really puts the whole "Neanderthal fat factory" into much broader context and highlights the multiple dimensions of hunter-gatherer diets. Very interesting to get a crop scientist's perspective on this topic! Definitely worth a read!!

Edouard Lartet’s 1864 discovery of this mammoth engraved on a mammoth tusk at La Madeleine in France provided clear evidence that humans had lived there alongside extinct ice age animals