Modern Humans Thrived While Neanderthals Disappeared, But Not Due to Our Brains
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What gave us the upper hand?
What gave us the upper hand?
Why did humans take over the world while our closest relatives, the Neanderthals, became extinct? It’s possible we were just…
C'est en France qu'ont été découvertes les plus anciennes gravures rupestres que l'on peut définitivement attribuer au travail…
In recent years, interest in the subject of Neanderthal cave art has exploded, as new discoveries have illuminated the…
Identifying the artists behind prehistoric paintings is a tricky business, but scientists say that these paintings were the “unam…
Archaeologists are used to finding things that are there. Now research by Georgina Walton and colleagues, published in Plants…
Sixty thousand years ago, give or take a few millennia, bands of Neanderthals thrived in a valley in central Spain, doing…
Tradition says that Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens were intellectually distinct. But archaeologists and anthropologists…
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It gives our brains the edge.
[English version below] La cueva de Ardales (Málaga, sur de España) fue descubierta en 1821 cuando un terremoto expuso una…
Some of the oldest known art may hint at the beginning of language development, while later examples portray narratives with…
A team of European archaeologists used high-tech testing procedures have confirmed that painted stalagmites found in the…
Creativity from 60,000 years ago.
They were people, too.
A pig painting inside an Indonesian cave has been dated to 43,900 years old, making it among the oldest—if not the oldest—known…
Unlike humans living today, our distant ancestors exerted a very small footprint on the planet, leaving barely anything behind…
La presencia humana en la zona de Cáceres comienza hace muchos miles de años, gracias a una abundante y constante masa de agua…
The bony growths appear after repeated exposure to cold water and were found on half of the Neanderthal skulls examined
La ciencia es un campo de conocimientos indetenible. Revisemos 10 de los más grandes logros científicos alcanzados durante el…
Did Neanderthals have language? Before trying to answer that, I should admit my bias: I’m team Neanderthal. As an…
(p. D1) On Thursday [February 22, 2018], a team of researchers offered compelling evidence that Neanderthals bore one of the…
Three papers, published together in Science today, add up to a paradigm-shoving conclusion: Key aspects of what we think of as…
< English version below> Ha causado un gran revuelo la datación de tres muestras de arte rupestre que indica que sus autores…
New evidence suggests Neanderthals made cave art — and they may also have created religious rituals. It's time to let go of…
Carl Zimmer in the New York Times: It’s long been an insult to be called a Neanderthal. But the more these elusive, vanished…
Featured Image: Skull of Metoposaurus krasiejowensis from the Upper Triassic of southwest Poland (UOPB 01029). From Konietzko-Mei…
Welcome to the February High Five! We’re departing from our regular format of analyzing of the top five most mentioned papers…
Ubicación de la Cueva de Ardales. Cantalejo et al, 2014.UbicaciónEn la falda norte del Cerro de la Calinora, Desfiladero de los…
Ученые выяснили, что самыми первыми художниками на планете являются неандертальцы. Они начали делать рисунки в пещерах и создават…
Ученые выяснили, что самыми первыми художниками на планете являются неандертальцы. Они начали делать рисунки в пещерах и создават…
Qué nos cuenta la morfología sobre la vida de los neandertalesLa morfología de los neandertales clásicos se ha considerado como…
An international team of researchers have dated painted art found on the walls and inside four caves in Spain and discovered…
A new study shows that paintings in three cave sites on the Iberian Peninsula — a red linear motif in Cave of La Pasiega, a…
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Sino ad oggi si riteneva che i Neanderthal non fossero sufficientemente evoluti per disegnare, ma queste pitture rupestri di…
Древнейшие из найденных наскальных рисунков были сделаны неандертальцами, сообщается в Science. К такому выводу пришли британские…
Det er stor uenighet blant forskere om hva slags evner neandertalerne egentlig hadde. Nå konkluderer en studie med at alderen på…
In two new studies, published yesterday in Science and Science Advances, researchers Alistair Pike, an archaeologist at the…
Une nouvelle étude menée par l’Université de Southampton et l’Institut Max Planck pour l’anthropologie évolutionniste montre…
As if on cue, science news today reports a remarkable discovery: cave art in Spain from upwards of 64,000 years ago, apparently…
If you still think Neanderthals were dull-witted brutes, you simply aren’t woke. In 1856, laborers in a limestone quarry in…
A red hand stencil. A series of lines that look like a ladder. A collection of red dots. These images, painted in ocher on cave…