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APRIL 30, 2025

These languages, many of which still survive today, are more than means of communication—they are archaeological strata encoded in speech. A new study in Scientific Reports 1 argues that their grammar preserves a faint but measurable imprint of the first humans to populate the continent. “And migration reshapes both.”

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JANUARY 8, 2025

A recent study sheds new light on its human history, highlighting the deep impact of migrations from New Guinea into this region approximately 3,500 years ago. Challenges of Deciphering Human Migrations Studying Wallacea’s genetic history isn’t without its challenges. Human Biology , 83(4), 587–607. Kealy, S.,

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FEBRUARY 15, 2025

The Mystery of the First Dogs Dogs, our oldest animal companions, have walked beside humans for tens of thousands of years. Could natural selection alone turn wolves into early dogs quickly enough to match the archaeological record? But how did this ancient partnership begin?

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MARCH 5, 2024

An archaeologist explains how remains recently recovered from a cave in present-day Germany suggest that Neanderthals and modern humans populated Europe together for at least 10,000 years. An international, multidisciplinary team has identified human ( H. However, there are many challenges to exploring this distant time.

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APRIL 23, 2025

The new ancient DNA study sequenced human remains from this and other important Phoenician-Punic archaeological sites. Instead, it appears that the Phoenician identity was shared and adapted by highly diverse communities connected by trade, ideas, and shared language—not common ancestry. Read more

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MAY 1, 2025

The Bone Archive of Human History If genes are blueprints, skulls are blueprints weathered by time. The short, high, gracile cranial forms common in recent centuries may owe more to changes in nutrition, lifestyle, and climate than to deep ancestry. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 17 (5). link] 1 Grasgruber, P.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

More than 46,000 years ago, deep within the caves of what is now northern Spain, a silent drama unfolded between humans and the great beasts of the Ice Age. More importantly, the study provided evidence that humans and large carnivores—like hyenas and leopards—coexisted in Iberia for much longer than previously thought.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Human history is not just about where we came from but how we adapted to the ever-changing environments we encountered. Studies on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is inherited exclusively from the mother, found that all modern human mtDNA lineages trace back to a common ancestor in Africa, roughly 200,000 years ago.

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

A Glimpse into Europe’s Earliest Settlers Over 45,000 years ago, small groups of modern humans roamed the icy expanse of Ice Age Europe. Among these pioneers were individuals whose lives and genetic histories have now been reconstructed from the oldest modern human genomes yet sequenced.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The Search for Early Symbolic Expression For decades, archaeologists have debated the origins of symbolic thought in early humans. Was it an innovation exclusive to modern humans, or did our distant relatives also engage in abstract expression? Symbolic behavior in early humans is often difficult to identify with certainty.

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MAY 16, 2025

In the deep past, long before written records or monumental architecture, human groups took part in a migration that would come to define the edges of our species' range. From the icy expanses of North Asia to the farthest tip of South America, early humans embarked on a journey that would span 20,000 kilometers and thousands of years.

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OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Oakhurst rock shelter, nestled in the cliffs of South Africa’s southern coast, has long been a focal point for archaeologists due to its wealth of artifacts and human remains. These findings offer a new perspective on human population stability and cultural evolution in southern Africa. 1 Gretzinger, J., Gibbon, V.

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MARCH 6, 2024

In the annals of human prehistory, the Ukrainian landscape has emerged as a pivotal theater, offering insights into the earliest chapters of human migration and adaptation. Recent archaeological excavations in western Ukraine have yielded a treasure trove of stone tools dating back an astonishing 1.4 million years.

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JUNE 23, 2024

A recent not-yet-peer-reviewed analysis 1 of ancient and modern genomes suggests that contemporary human Neanderthal DNA originated from a single, prolonged period of mixing approximately 47,000 years ago. Introduction A new study, recently released as a preprint on bioRxiv , sharpens the timeline for this crucial period in human history.

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JULY 12, 2024

A groundbreaking study 1 has revealed that modern humans and Neanderthals engaged in repeated episodes of interbreeding over a span of 200,000 years. This discovery, spearheaded by researchers from Southeast University and Princeton University, sheds new light on the complex history of human evolution and interaction. bps, base pairs.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Over 100,000 years ago, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens roamed the Levant, a region that would become a crossroads of human migration. Exposed section of archaeological sediments dated to to 110 thousand years ago at Tinshemet cave A new study, published in Nature Human Behaviour 1 , brings fresh insight into this question.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to modern ancestry documentation. Journal : European Journal of Archaeology , 2004. European Journal of Archaeology , 1–18.

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OCTOBER 3, 2024

The genomes of most modern humans contain up to 4% Neanderthal DNA. Many modern humans have some admixture of Neanderthal DNA, an indication that Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis knew one another, also in the Biblical sense. ” This chimes with previous archaeological finds. Well, sort of. Got a strange map?

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MAY 15, 2025

Their study, published in African Archaeological Review 1 combines GIS mapping, radiocarbon analysis, and field excavation to reveal a dense mosaic of funerary monuments, symbolic structures, and art. This unique position shaped human activity for millennia. Somewhere between 2119 and 1890 BCE.

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

The findings, published in Nature Communications 1 , reveal a wealth of information about the boy's ancestry, physical traits, health, and the environment in which he lived, offering a rare glimpse into the lives of prehistoric humans. Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia." Villalba-Mouco, V.,

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

In the realm of human evolution, a groundbreaking study 1 led by researchers at the Australian National University in Canberra and the Natural History Museum of London is poised to revolutionize our narrative of human ancestry. They hold promise in advancing our comprehension of human evolution."

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

About 46% of humans, well over three billion people, are native speakers of an Indo-European language. This is a huge step forward from the mutually exclusive, previous scenarios, towards a more plausible model that integrates archaeological, anthropological, and genetic findings.” Strange Maps #1220 Got a strange map?

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MARCH 7, 2024

at Téviec and Hoedic, two coastal archaeological sites in northwestern France. Assistant Professor Christina Bergey underscores the significance of these genomes in elucidating human culture during the Neolithic transition. Genomic ancestry and social dynamics of the last hunter-gatherers of Atlantic France. Marchand, G.,

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MARCH 4, 2025

Through this work, drawing on knowledge from human skeletal biology, anatomy, and archaeology, we often confront the immense social and racial inequalities that can play a role in the circumstances of ones death. We are humans asking questions about the world around us. and around the world.

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JULY 20, 2024

The Archaeological Evidence The theory of the Neolithic decline originated from archaeological evidence showing large-scale abandonment of settlements. Colors indicate genetic ancestry, and black crosses designate individuals with the plague.Credit: Seersholm et al., Plague spread in Neolithic Scandinavia. 1 Seersholm, F.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The Caucasus: A Nexus of Early Human Civilization Situated between Europe and Asia, the Caucasus Mountains stretch from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea, encompassing modern-day Georgia, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Iran. The correspondent labels and groupings are listed in Supplementary Table 5.

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JANUARY 2, 2025

By using “time-stratified ancestry analysis,” this research employs the novel Twigstats approach to reconstruct Europe's genetic history with unprecedented clarity. Conversely, the late Viking Age shows a reversal, with central European ancestries moving northward into Scandinavia.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Herodotus and the Phrygian Hypothesis Historical Theories on Armenian Origins For centuries, the Greek historian Herodotus’ writings influenced the perception of Armenian ancestry. The results demonstrate a strong genetic continuity within the Armenian highlands, further distancing Armenian ancestry from the Balkans. Source: O.

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MAY 12, 2025

In a quiet room humming with server stacks, a genomic dataset from nearly 300,000 Americans is doing something anthropologists have long tried to accomplish: capturing a living mosaic of human ancestry at a scale once unimaginable. “We’re not just seeing neat little bins of ancestry,” said Jordan.

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JANUARY 4, 2025

While much attention has been paid to early human dispersals out of Africa, Yemen’s role in shaping human history remains understudied. A new study published in Scientific Reports 1 takes a closer look at Yemen’s genetic landscape, uncovering millennia of human movement, intermixing, and adaptation. Map of Yemen.

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