There has been much excitement over recent reports that something found in a cave in Gibraltar is the first known example of Neanderthal art. But what exactly has been found, can it be believed and, if so, why is it important?
Archaeology
Sep 17, 2014
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Some of mankind's earliest and most mysterious artistic achievements—including prehistoric cave paintings, canyon petroglyphs and megalithic structures such as Stonehenge—may have been inspired by the behaviors of sound ...
General Physics
Oct 28, 2014
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An archaeological study has found evidence of the earliest occupation of the Australian coast from Barrow Island, Northwest Australia.
Archaeology
May 19, 2017
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Pottery fragments found in a south China cave have been confirmed to be 20,000 years old, making them the oldest known pottery in the world, archaeologists say.
Archaeology
Jun 28, 2012
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Eyeless cave fish and a frog that carries its offspring on its back are among the new species a team of scientists have discovered in Indonesia's eastern Papua region.
Plants & Animals
Nov 26, 2010
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Two new hominin fossils have been found in a previously uninvestigated chamber in the Sterkfontein Caves, just North West of Johannesburg in South Africa.
Paleontology & Fossils
Feb 11, 2016
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Did an ancient island facilitate migration among the Ryukyu Islands? Compiling the latest geological and biological data, a research group from Tohoku University has provided compelling evidence that this was the case.
Earth Sciences
Jul 24, 2023
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Scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of an extinct cave bear using a 360,000-year-old bone—the oldest genome of any organism from a non-permafrost environment.
Molecular & Computational biology
Feb 22, 2021
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More than 70 years ago two palaeontologists named Robert Broom and John Robinson discovered a skull at the Sterkfontein Caves near Johannesburg. They nicknamed the skull, which is believed to be about 2.5 million years old, ...
Archaeology
Feb 1, 2018
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Using oxygen stable isotope analysis of tooth enamel from animals butchered by humans at the site of Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria, Max Planck researchers show that human groups belonging to an early wave of dispersal of our ...
Archaeology
Sep 22, 2021
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