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Declive neandertal y expansión sapiens en la península ibérica: una modelización espacial y demográfica

Neanderthal decline and sapiens expansion in the Iberian Peninsula: a spatial and demographic modeling 🏺🧪
Roberto Sáez‬ @robertosaezm.bsky.social

How long does DNA last? The world's oldest DNA comes from a 2.4 million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland. Will scientists eventually sequence even older DNA?

How long does DNA last? - @killgrove.bsky.social www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

16 sitios en Guinea Ecuatorial con 418 herramientas de piedra que muestran ocupaciones humanas hace entre 44-20 ka en África central.
Middle Stone Age (MSA) in the Atlantic rainforests of Central Africa. The case of Río Campo region in Equatorial Guinea www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Onset of summer aridification and the decline of Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua 61,000 years ago - Communications Earth & Environment Severe summer aridification caused freshwater scarcity and the decline of Homo floresiensis and its prey at Liang Bua 61,000 years ago, as revealed by a rainfall record based on speleothem…

Desaparición de Homo floresiensis y abandono de Liang Bua hace entre 61-47 ka: aridificación e intensificación de caza de fauna local.
Onset of summer aridification and the decline of Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua 61,000 years ago

The picture shows two dolls with movable shoulders, elbows, hips and knee joints. The legs of both dolls are partially broken off. One doll's arm is almost completely missing. The limbs and torso are very long, the breasts small. The faces are largely destroyed. The hair is combed back behind the ears, reaching down to the shoulders at the nape. The ivory, which is actually white, has turned brown over time.

Beloved #toys: a pair of #Roman ivory #dolls with articulated arms and legs found in a tomb of a little #girl from a wealthy family in Emona, Ljubljana/Slovenia.

The majority of the dolls in Roman times were made of less valuable materials such as clay, wood or linen. 🧵1/2

🏺 #archaeology

Shanidar 3 ‘rings the bell’: Virtual ribcage reconstruction and its implications for understanding the Neanderthal bauplan

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YouTube video by Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History HOT (Human Origins Today) Topic: Recent Fossil Discoveries at Drimolen Cave, South Africa

Recent Fossil Discoveries at Drimolen Cave, South Africa - David Strait @brianapobiner.bsky.social youtu.be/IXeJRKsaUtk?...

Geographic distribution of the Homo fossil record in China over the past 2 million years.

China now appears as a dynamic evolutionary crossroad where multiple Homo lineages may have arisen

Palaeoanthropological evidence from China is changing the picture of hominin evolutionary history 🏺🧪
Shi-Xia Yang, @mmartinont.bsky.social & @mdpetraglia.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sparking ancient fires New research helps to show the challenges of documenting ancient firemaking

Sparking ancient fires @johnhawks.net open.substack.com/pub/johnhawk...

Virtual reconstruction and comparative study of the face of StW 573 (“Little Foot”) En plus d’apporter des informations taxonomiques et phylogénétiques, les changements de la taille et la conformation de la face des hominines dans le temps sont susceptibles de refléter des adap...

Virtual reconstruction and comparative study of the face of StW 573 ("Little Foot") sciencepress.mnhn.fr/fr/periodiqu...

🗃️ Also this one is gorgeous: Louise, held by her mother Meave, who is holding - with Richard - a hominin skull.
Technosocial hominin worlds connected through time 😍

📽️The 1978 drama miniseries from the BBC, 🧪
The Voyage of Charles Darwin (7 episodes)

What Your DNA Reveals About the Sex Life of Neanderthals

What Your DNA Reveals About the Sex Life of Neanderthals @carlzimmer.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/s...

Japan's ancient 'tigers' were actually cave lions, DNA evidence shows There aren't any native lion or tiger populations living in Japan today, but this was not always the case. Fossil evidence indicates that at least one species of large cat roamed the archipelago durin...

Japan's ancient 'tigers' were actually cave lions, DNA evidence shows ⛏️🧬🦁🇯🇵 phys.org/news/2026-02...

Evidence points to early goat and sheep dairy consumption in Neolithic Iran Approximately 9,000 years ago, human communities in Southwest Asia underwent a dramatic transformation, known as the Neolithic revolution. This period was marked by pronounced changes in how they live...

Evidence points to early goat and sheep dairy consumption in Neolithic Iran ⛏️🐏🇮🇷 phys.org/news/2026-02...

Humans Made Poisoned Arrowheads Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Thought The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of thousands of years earlier than previously known

Humans Made Poisoned Arrowheads Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Thought @katewong.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/huma...

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160,000-year-old sophisticated stone tools discovered in China may not have been made by Homo sapiens Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held assumption about stone tool use.

160,000-year-old sophisticated stone tools discovered in China may not have been made by Homo sapiens www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

YouTube video by Evolution Soup Were We Scavengers? Meat-Eating & Human Evolution ~ with Professor BRIANA POBINER

Were We Scavengers? Meat-Eating & Human Evolution ~ with Professor BRIANA POBINER @brianapobiner.bsky.social @evolutionsoup.bsky.social youtu.be/80mwdRtDIjo?...

Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia | PNAS The Late Pleistocene of Eurasia is key for understanding interactions between early modern humans and different types of archaic human groups. Duri...

Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia

Mosquitoes Have Been Bugging Humans Since Homo Erectus, 1.8 Million Years Ago

Mosquitoes Have Been Bugging Humans Since Homo Erectus, 1.8 Million Years Ago
#evolutionsoup #evolution #paleoanthropology #science #fossils
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Matrilineal networks may be the key to understanding Neanderthal mixture A new study focusing on the X chromosome finds repeated maternal dispersal bias in Neanderthal and modern evolution.

Matrilineal networks may be the key to understanding Neanderthal mixture @johnhawks.net open.substack.com/pub/johnhawk...

La gracilidad de la cara humana moderna parece deberse a un cambio en el desarrollo de la actividad celular ósea en la región mediofacial, que comienza a ralentizarse en la infancia y se detiene alrededor de la adolescencia.

New study maps where wheat, barley and rye grew before the first farmers found them Using advanced machine learning and climate models, researchers have shown that the ancestors of crops like wheat, barley, and rye probably were much less widespread in the Middle East 12,000 years ag...

New study maps where wheat, barley and rye grew before the first farmers found them phys.org/news/2026-02...

Stone Age teenager was mauled by a bear 28,000 years ago, skeletal analysis confirms The mystery of a Stone Age teenager's death has been solved — 80 years after he was found in an ancient burial ground in Italy.

Stone Age teenager was mauled by a bear 28,000 years ago, skeletal analysis confirms www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Meet The 1.5-Million-Year-Old ‘Ghost’ In Your Genes. Hint: We’ve Haven’t Found Its Fossils Yet New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.”

Meet The 1.5-Million-Year-Old ‘Ghost’ In Your Genes. Hint: We’ve Haven’t Found Its Fossils Yet www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...

Human dispersal into East Eurasia: ancient genome insights and the need for research on physiological adaptations - Journal of Physiological Anthropology Humans have long pondered their genesis. The answer to the great question of where Homo sapiens come from has evolved in conjunction with biotechnologies that have allowed us to more brightly…

Human dispersal into East Eurasia: ancient genome insights and the need for research on physiological adaptations