Jørgen Holm

When Giants Walked: How Rapa Nui’s Moai Moved Themselves into History New archaeological evidence & physics-based experiments show that Easter Island’s colossal statues didn’t just stand; they walked, revealing the ingenuity of one of the world’s most misunderstood isla

When Giants Walked: How Rapa Nui’s Moai Moved Themselves into History
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The Toothpick Myth: What Wild Primates Reveal About Ancient Human Teeth A new study finds that the small grooves once thought to prove “toothpick” use in early humans also appear naturally in wild primates—suggesting a far less cultural, and far more biological.

The Toothpick Myth: What Wild Primates Reveal About Ancient Human Teeth
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Time Capsules in Feathers and Bone: How Bearded Vultures Became Unwitting Archaeologists For centuries, Europe’s largest vulture has been hoarding bones and human-made artifacts in cliffside nests—preserving a quiet archive of the Anthropocene.

Time Capsules in Feathers and Bone: How Bearded Vultures Became Unwitting Archaeologists
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How Neanderthals Met the Ice Age on Every Front New research shows that Homo neanderthalensis combined technology, anatomy, and physiology to withstand Ice Age extremes

How Neanderthals Met the Ice Age on Every Front
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How Monumental Art Helped Humans Thrive in Arabia’s Harshest Desert Twelve-thousand-year-old engravings in northern Arabia reveal how early desert communities used monumental art to mark water, memory, and survival.

How Monumental Art Helped Humans Thrive in Arabia’s Harshest Desert
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The problem skulls from Yunxian The relationships of fossils from deep time in China may help reveal ancestral connections for the Denisovans

The problem skulls from Yunxian
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🧪🏺🦣 Re-dating using HYP on Lagar Velho suggests charcoal & most fauna unassociated (except red-stained rabbit).
Child's anatomy still being described as "mosaic" with Neanderthal features, pointing to "shared ancestry".
What are general thoughts on the latter?
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When Homo habilis Hid from Leopards: A New Look at Our Prey Past A study of tooth marks on two fossils from Olduvai Gorge suggests that early members of our genus were still on the menu for big cats.

When Homo habilis Hid from Leopards: A New Look at Our Prey Past
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Beyond DNA: How Culture May Be Reshaping the Course of Human Evolution New research argues that cultural inheritance, not genes, is increasingly defining who we are

Beyond DNA: How Culture May Be Reshaping the Course of Human Evolution
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Cave Palaeolithic of the Ural Mountains
The Ural Mountains are of fundamental importance for studying early human migrations along the geographical limits between Europe and Asia. Geological processes and past climates gave rise to numerous caves, mostly in Palaeozoic carbonate formations ...

Small-mammalian fossils from the Paleolithic Dayin Cave site in Yunnan, Southwest China Small mammals have short life spans, rapid reproductive cycles, wide distributions, and are sensitive to climate change. Composition of small mammal f…

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Islands at the Edge of Time: How Papua New Guineans Carry One of Humanity’s Oldest Genetic Stories New research shows the people of Papua New Guinea share a deep ancestral bond with other Asians yet preserve a singular demographic history shaped by isolation, Denisovan ancestry, and survival bottle

Islands at the Edge of Time: How Papua New Guineans Carry One of Humanity’s Oldest Genetic Stories
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Denisovan Genes and the Ancient Geography of Disease How Paleoenvironments Shaped the Immune Systems We Inherited

Denisovan Genes and the Ancient Geography of Disease
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Goats on the Edge: Neanderthals, Mountain Hunts, and the Early Roots of Human Ingenuity New evidence from a Serbian cave shows early Neanderthals mastering risky terrain and complex subsistence strategies 300,000 years ago

Goats on the Edge: Neanderthals, Mountain Hunts, and the Early Roots of Human Ingenuity
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Hair, Stone, and Memory: A 27,000-Year-Old Figurine from Northern France A newly discovered Gravettian statuette suggests that Ice Age art carried fashion, identity, and cultural nuance

Hair, Stone, and Memory: A 27,000-Year-Old Figurine from Northern France
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The Attention Gap: Tracing the Neurogenetic Roots of Homo sapiens’ Focus A new study probes the genes behind attention in ancient hominins — and what they might tell us about the human mind

The Attention Gap: Tracing the Neurogenetic Roots of Homo sapiens’ Focus
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Voices From Deep Time What Dogs, Pigs, and Marmosets Reveal About the Evolution of Human Speech

Voices From Deep Time
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Stones and Fire in the West African Savanna A 9,000-year-old quartz workshop from Senegal reframes the story of Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers

Stones and Fire in the West African Savanna
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What matters in humanity's attempts to increase lifespan? A conversation between world leaders prompts an exploration into the history of human health

What matters in humanity's attempts to increase lifespan?
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Nice Middle Palaeolithic refits from India, like a 3d jigsaw, this is piecing back together stone tools made by people tens of thousands of years ago. By Akash Pandey. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A close-up photograph of a flute made from a hollowed bone, displayed horizontally on a soft, gray fabric mount in a museum. The flute features several round finger holes along its length and showcases signs of wear and age, such as small chips.

One of the oldest known musical instruments: a Palaeolithic flute made from a vulture bone some 38,000 years ago!

This is one of 8 known flutes found on the Swabian Jura. The finds suggest that music played an important role in this region. 🧵1/2

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The gene from Denisovan to Neanderthal to modern mucus A “genetic sandwich” reveals how a block of DNA entered several populations successively and was affected by natural selection.

The gene from Denisovan to Neanderthal to modern mucus
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A Child Between Worlds: The Skhūl Fossil and the Earliest Evidence of Sapiens-Neanderthal Interbreeding A 140,000-year-old skull from Mount Carmel reveals the first physical trace of ancient encounters between two human lineages.

A Child Between Worlds: The Skhūl Fossil and the Earliest Evidence of Sapiens-Neanderthal Interbreeding
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A.R. Lada. The challenges of identifying intentional blade fragmentation in Paleolithic industries ISSN 2658-3828 (print)ISSN 2658-6665 (online)

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International Workshop
„Origins and Development of the Eurasian Initial Upper Palaeolithic“

Tracing the transition: personal ornaments and bone tools at the onset of the upper
Paleolithic

Potential Evidence of Initial Upper Paleolithic at Aghitu-3, Armenia
In this paper, we present a study of the lithic assemblage from archaeological horizon (AH) VII
at Aghitu-3 Cave and explore its possible relationship to the Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) based
on a detailed lithic analysis ...

New hominin teeth from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia Reviewing new evidence that suggests a presence of Homo and Australopithecus in the time before 2.5 million years ago.

Last week Nature published a description of teeth from the Ledi-Geraru field area of Ethiopia by Brian Villmoare and a team of collaborators. The team found the thirteen teeth in 2015 and 2018 and report that they come from a range of times from 2.78 million to 2.59 million years ago ...

Aesthetic Consciousness Reflected in Prehistoric Stone Tools This chapter investigates the manifestation of aesthetic consciousness in prehistoric societies through the study of stone tools. It analyzes how early humans selected materials such as flint and quar...

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Two giant handaxes, one pointed and one ficron.

Do giant handaxes from Lower Palaeolithic Britain indicate cognitive development of early hominins? 🏺 #Archaeology

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