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A Forgotten Chapter in Human Evolution: The Hidden Ancestry of Modern Humans

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This approach circumvents the need for physical fossils, offering a way to reconstruct population history even when no bones or artifacts remain. Over time, this population eventually gave rise to the majority of Homo sapiens ancestry, as well as to Neanderthals and Denisovans. Nat Genet (2025). DOI: 10.1038/ng.3748

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East Meets West: Avar Society’s Genetic Patchwork in Early Medieval Austria

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The graves, filled with artifacts like ornate belt fittings and everyday items, reflected a shared culture. While Leobersdorf's population was predominantly of East Asian origin, Mödling's inhabitants carried European ancestry," said Ke Wang, one of the study’s lead geneticists. Zlámalová, D., Gretzinger, J.,

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Echoes from the Ice Age: DNA Unveils the Prehistoric Inhabitants of El Mirón Cave

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For centuries, the study of prehistoric life has relied on the fragile remnants of bones and artifacts. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). These genetic signatures match the so-called "Fournol cluster" of Gravettian ancestry, suggesting that a distinct population survived in this region through the Last Glacial Maximum.

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The Geometry of Memory: How Knots Carry the Weight of Human History

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“The ability to tie them may have been passed between cultures, or more likely through shared ancestry,” — Roope Kaaronen But cultural transmission can’t explain everything. Many knotted artifacts remain tucked away in storage, undocumented and undigitized. 1 Kaaronen, R. Henrich, A. Manninen, M. Eronen, J.

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Carving the Mind: Middle Paleolithic Engravings and the Dawn of Symbolic Thought

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The Engraved Stones of the Levant The researchers focused on five artifacts from four archaeological sites: Manot Cave, Amud Cave, Qafzeh Cave, and Quneitra. The artifacts themselves varied in form—two engraved Levallois cores, a flint plaquette, and two incised cortical flakes—but each bore markings that required closer scrutiny.