The weather on the planet is always changing. The temperature of the globe has fluctuated throughout the last two million years. Between the chilly Ice Age epochs, a sequence of warm times occurred. Around 18,000 BC, the last of the Ice Ages reached its apex.
Category: Anthropology
The study of ancient predators sheds light on how humans found food or did not
A new Rice University-led study of ancient predator remains reveals new information about how prehistoric humans found – or did not find – food.
An ancient tooth of a mysterious Denisovan girl may have been discovered
The discovery of an ancient molar — a tooth that likely belonged to young girl who lived up to 164,000 years ago in a cave in what is now Laos — is new evidence that the mysterious human lineage dubbed the Denisovans, previously known only from caves in Siberia and China, also lived in Southeast Asia, a new study finds.
Genetic Origins of Earth’s First Farmers Confirmed
The earliest farmers came from a combination of two hunter-gatherer populations during a volatile period, not from a single group as one might imagine.
Neanderthals of Northern Europe
Were Neanderthals really as well adapted to life in the cold as previously assumed, or did they prefer more temperate environmental conditions during the last Ice Age?