Early Homo sapiens expanded into Europe 300,000 years ago
Did range expansion leave early modern Europeans genetically indistinguishable from Neanderthals?
Archaeology & Prehistory, Human evolution, Human migration, Tools & technology
Archaeology & Prehistory, Behaviour & Cognition, Human evolution
Shanidar Cave
Compassion and violence at iconic Neanderthal site.
Human evolution
At least two unknown human species contributed to modern genome
Researchers find genetic signatures of ‘ghost’ and ‘super-archaic’ lineages.
Archaeology & Prehistory, Human evolution
Rising Star hominins may all be female
vidence for cultural mortuary practices of Homo naledi.
Archaeology & Prehistory, Behaviour & Cognition
Neanderthals treated dental caries 59,000 years ago
Earliest known example of dental surgery.
Photographs
Silbury Hill
Chalk and earth mound near Avebury, Wilts, constructed between 2400 and 2300 BCE.
Archaeology & Prehistory, Behaviour & Cognition, Legacy posts
Spanish cave art was produced by Neanderthals
Conclusive evidence that Neanderthals were not the dimwits of popular imagination?