Were These 335,000-Year-Old Hominins The First to Bury Their Dead?
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Recent research suggests that the tiny-brained Homo naledi was a gravedigger and artist, but some researchers aren’t so sure.
Recent research suggests that the tiny-brained Homo naledi was a gravedigger and artist, but some researchers aren’t so sure.
Today, PLOS ONE is publishing a paper entitled “Tufas indicate prolonged periods of water availability linked to human…
As one of the oldest colors in the world, red symbolizes aggression, power, and passion. Here are some surprising facts about…
Scientists and historians have made incredible finds—from the oldest human-made art to long-lost shipwrecks—in the 20 years…
Henshilwood y Marean (2003) sintetizaron los rasgos de la conducta humana moderna (Modern human behavior, MHB):Enterramientos y…
Scientists are turning to neuroscience to understand how and why early humans first made rock engravings.
Наука не стоит на месте, о чем свидетельствуют постоянные открытия, новые разработки и технологические решения, с каждым разом по…
Welcome to the September High Five! On a monthly basis, the High Five post highlights the articles that have received the most…
El tercer trimestre del año suele estar protagonizado por las campañas de excavación en los yacimientos paleontológicos y por…
A silica flake from Blombos Cave contains the oldest example of prehistoric abstract art, and it looks like one of the most…
By Mariama SowDjibouti nationalizes majority shares in Red Sea…
Najstarejša abstraktna risba je stara približno 73 tisoč let. Našli so jo na majhnem kamnu v Južni Afriki, poroča britanski BBC.
A cross-hatched pattern drawn with an ochre crayon on a small piece of siliceous rock (silcrete) is 73,000 years old. It pre-date…
Science as a routine matter expects to be able to differentiate between the results of natural and intelligent causes. Sound…
Un ricercatore italiano dell'Università del Witwatersrand (Sud Africa) ha scoperto nella grotta di Blombos il più antico…
Artwork from waaaay before Photoshop.
Des archéologues ont découvert ce qui pourrait être les plus anciens dessins réalisés par l'humain. Découvert dans une grotte d'A…
Se trata de nueve líneas rojas entrecruzadas pintadas con ocre sobre una roca hace 73.000 años en una cueva de Sud…
В древней южноафриканской пещере обнаружен фрагмент рисунка, созданного палеолитическим художником еще 73 тысячи лет назад.
What is a symbol? This is a tough question to answer when tasked with analyzing the earliest graphic productions. What we might…
Our ancient ancestors were an artsy bunch.
The hashtag is far more ancient than we think. In a South African cave, inscribed on a flake of rock, nine lines of red ochre…
A silica flake from Blombos Cave contains the oldest example of prehistoric abstract art and it looks like one of the most used…
Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the oldest human-made drawings ever found. Discovered in a cave in South Africa, the…
Напоминающие хэштег линии, сделанные охрой на куске силкрита, возможно, были древнейшим в мире рисунком, говорится в Nature.
Enlarge / This small flake of silcrete bears the oldest drawing ever discovered, (credit: Craig Foster) The world’s oldest…
Researchers believe the pattern on the fragment of rock is 73,000 years old, but are perplexed as to what it might representIt…
Archeologists have discovered the earliest known drawing created by humans, scrawled on a rock at the shoreline of South Africa.
In our recent paper in Nature we describe the earliest known instance of an abstract drawing. Here we give a bit of background…