Anthropology.net
MARCH 18, 2025
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. This group shrank to a tiny size before slowly recovering.
Anthropology.net
JANUARY 18, 2025
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.
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Anthropology.net
APRIL 30, 2025
To ensure this wasn’t an artifact of sampling or contact with European languages, the team excluded creoles, mixed languages, and known colonial effects. The result was striking: languages in the Arctic and Subarctic regions averaged significantly more categories than those in the Amazon and Andes.
Anthropology.net
APRIL 4, 2025
“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.
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
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.
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
For centuries, the study of prehistoric life has relied on the fragile remnants of bones and artifacts. 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. Unraveling Time with Sedimentary DNA No Bones?
Anthropology.net
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.
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