De l'âge de pierre à l'âge de guerre, il n'y a qu'un pas. Des chercheurs allemands ont en effet publié lundi dans les Comptes rendus de l'Académie nationale américaine des sciences (PNAS) une étude sur la découverte d'une fosse commune en Allemagne en 2006. On y avait retrouvé pas moins de 26 squelettes humains, donc ceux de 10 jeunes enfants.
Une fosse contenant au moins vingt-six squelettes humains dont ceux de dix jeunes enfants, découverte en Allemagne, constitue le dernier témoignage d'un massacre de masse il y a 7.000 ans en Europe Centrale, selon une étude publiée lundi.
Scientists say they have found rare evidence of a prehistoric massacre in Europe after discovering a 7,000-year-old mass grave with skeletal remains from some of the continent's first farmers bearing terrible wounds.
Marks on two 3.4 million-year-old animal bones found at the site of Dikika, Ethiopia, were not caused by trampling, an extensive statistical analysis confirms. The Journal of Human Evolution published the results of the study, which developed new methods of fieldwork and analysis for researchers exploring the origins of tool making and meat eating in our ancestors.
D’où vient la morale ? La doit-on à Dieu, par l’entremise des religions, à la raison ou à la nature ? Psychologue, biologiste et primatologue, le Néerlandais Frans de Waal, qui enseigne aux États-Unis, affirme, dans Le bonobo, Dieu et nous, que«la morale vient d’en bas», qu’elle «est plus ancienne que la religion» et que notre humanité«nous est inhérente». La source de la morale, en d’autres termes, ne se trouverait ni dans la religion ni dans la raison, mais bien dans les émotions naturelles. Érudit et modeste, conteur hors pair capable autant d’émouvoir que de faire sourire, Frans de Waal expose avec un éblouissant brio cette thèse audacieuse.
Scientists at The Field Museum have identified a new species of pre-mammal in what is now Zambia. Thanks to a unique groove on the animal's upper jaw, it was dubbed Ichibengops (Itchy-BEN-gops), which combines the local Bemba word for scar (ichibenga), and the common Greek suffix for face (ops). Put simply: Scarface.
Serge LEMAÎTRE, Conseiller scientifique attaché aux Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire de Bruxelles, nous parle de l'exposition et de l'aventure Lascaux. Repo...
Une phalange trouvée en Tanzanie (Afrique de l'Est), dans les mythiques gorges d'Olduvai, repousse un peu plus dans la passé l'apparition de la main moderne chez les hominines : 1,84 million d'années.
It must have been a traumatic event for the little amphibian. No sooner had it hatched from its egg than something tried to eat it, tearing off its leg. It then landed in a sticky deposit of resin, to be preserved forever in amber. But the tiny salamander’s loss turned out to be researchers' gain, for this little fossil represents the only known evidence that salamanders ever lived in the Caribbean. Today, they are absent from the entire group of islands.
Datant de l’âge du bronze, La colonie de Kültepe-Kaniş-Karum n’en a pas fini de passionner les archéologues. Les traces archéologiques laissées dans son sillage dans le centre de l’Anatolie offrent …
The early Neolithic period in central Europe was a rather chaotic time. On the one hand, it's characterized by the first true farming communities, appearing around 5500 BCE, who made pottery in a distinct decoration style that gave them their German name, Linearbandkeramik Culture (LBK). On the other hand, there’s also an increasing amount of evidence to suggest mass violence was a regular feature as the population peaked and declined.
Surprising research has shown that mass extinctions, despite being, well, mass extinctions, may actually have a positive effect on evolution. Bear with us here.
By studying stalagmites and centuries-old writing on the walls of a cave in central China, researchers have pieced together a story about drought and its impact on society over the last 500 years. The findings, published in Scientific Reports this week, is the first time it’s been possible to conduct an on-site comparison of historical and geological records from the same cave.
Fragments of an early human skull and rib were found in Pleistocene era layers in Strashnaya Cave, it was announced by Professor Andrey Krivoshapkin, head of Archeology and Ethnography at Novosibirsk
En mesurant des courants électriques traversant la Pyramide, des scientifiques mexicains ont repéré ce que les Mayas appelaient un puits sacré dont le diamètre atteindrait 35 mètres pour une profondeur de 20 mètres. Cette découverte pourrait expliquer comment, il y a plus de mille ans, les Mayas choisissaient les lieux où construire leurs temples. “Nous savons que ce genre de terrain…
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