Created in the 1930s by John B. Sparks, also author of the famous "Histomap", published in 1931
Aux origines
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Aux origines de l'univers de la vie et de l'humanité...
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Jean-Philippe BOCQUENET
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Ancient Egyptians had to pull massive statues and pyramid stones weighing 2.5 tons on large sleds across the desert -- without any modern mechanical device.
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For many decades, scientists have tried to understand the past by doing as our forebears did. One important endeavor in what is called experimental archaeology involves moderns crafting Stone Age tools by chipping away at rocks. Why toil at whittling rocks by hand using other rocks when machine tools are readily available? One reason is to get at the question of what role toolmaking may have played in brain evolution, given the demands this task places on both mental faculties and motor skills. Toolmaking’s contribution to human evolution is controversial, though. Some theorists suggest that Paleolithic tool manufacture has little to with neural development, others hold that it is a driving force for our swollen frontal lobes. The advent of the brain scanner has opened up the possibility of finding out who is right. I talked to Dietrich Stout, a professor of anthropology at Emory University about a recent paper in PLOS One that looked at the demands on brainpower that toolmaking placed on our Paleolithic ancestors from 500,000 to 2.6 million years ago.
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« Little Foot« , cet australopithèque découvert en 1997 en Afrique du Sud était jusque là âgé de 2,2 millions d’années. Via Le CNRS Occitanie Ouest
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des archéologues ont découvert en Chine des tombes Zoroastriennes datant de plus de 2500 ans, alimentant la controverse sur les origines de cette religion.
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Dans plusieurs sites témoignant d'une occupation par l'Homme de Néandertal, les paléoanthropologues ont découvert des signes gravés sur des serres de rapaces. Ces traces posent une nouvelle fois...
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Une chargée de recherche au CNRS vient de dévoiler à San Francisco l’une des plus grandes découvertes de ce siècle : une nouvelle culture préhistorique, trouvée
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New research posits that our chins don’t come from mechanical forces such as chewing, but instead results from an evolutionary adaptation involving face size and shape—possibly linked to changes in...
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Depuis un demi-siècle, les scientifiques cherchent à déterminer quel élément essentiel au vivant est apparu en premier. Et si la réponse était... aucun !
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The role of the pig in the subsistence system of the Middle East has a long and, in some cases, poorly understood history. It is a common domesticated animal in earlier archaeological sites throughout the Middle East. Sometime in the first millennium
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A new study published by PeerJ documents injuries inflicted in life and death to a large tyrannosaurine dinosaur. The paper shows that the skull of a genus of tyrannosaur called Daspletosaurus suffered numerous injuries during life, at least some of which were likely inflicted by another Daspletosaurus. It was also bitten after death in an apparent event of scavenging by another tyrannosaur.
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Burying the dead with a human sacrifice was a common custom in ancient Korea. But in a peculiar case, Korean archaeologists have uncovered a 5th- to 6th-century tomb from Korea’s Silla Dynasty (57 B.C. to A.D. 935) in which a young woman and man are buried together - lying next to each other - raising the possibility that it represents an image of two people making love.
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Here’s the question: does the existence of life in the universe reflect something deep and fundamental or is it merely an accident and epiphenomenon? There’s an interesting new theory coming out of the field of biophysics that claims the cosmos is indeed built for life, and not just merely in the sense found in the so-called “anthropic principle” which states that just by being here we can assume that all of nature’s fundamental values must be friendly for complex organisms such as ourselves that are able to ask such questions. The new theory makes the claim that not just life, but life of ever growing complexity and intelligence is not just likely, but the inevitable result of the laws of nature.
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Des restes humains anciens découverts dans la grotte de Gough, en Angleterre, prouvent que les Magdaléniens avaient des habitudes cannibales.
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Gyptis, réplique d’une barque antique de pêche, est prête à reprendre la mer après un hiver passé au sec. Flash-back sur sa fabrication, sans clou ni vis, grâce à des spécialistes en archéologie expérimentale qui ont reproduit les gestes et le savoir-faire des charpentiers grecs de l’époque.
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Neanderthals may have died off because, unlike their anatomically modern human counterparts, they didn't harness fire for cooking, new research suggests.
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Les paléontologues pensaient que l’extinction du Capitanien, il y a 262 millions d'années, avait été localisée à l’équateur. De nouvelles preuves révèlent sa portée globale, comme les cinq autres.
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Plus vieux que le genre humain lui-même, ces outils sont datés de 3,3 millions d'années et ont été mis au jour au Kenya.
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Il y a environ 150 000 ans, à 20 000 années près, un homme est tombé dans un puits… C’est ainsi que l'Homme d'Altamura est devenu le plus ancien Neandertal
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On sait que notre Planète, vieille de 4,5 milliards d’années, abrite la vie depuis au moins 3,8 milliards d’années. Lorsque les tout premiers organismes vivants sont apparus sur notre Planète, celle-ci avait une température de 40 à 85° et une atmosphère bien différente de celle d’aujourd’hui, ...
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Pourquoi a-t-on cessé de manger du porc au Moyen-Orient ?
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VIDÉO. La découverte d'une tablette datant de 1750 av. J.-C. nous livre les origines du fameux récit biblique et plusieurs hypothèses concernant le Déluge.
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Sur la rive gauche de l’Euphrate, au Nord de la Syrie (fig. 1), le village de Jerf el Ahmar est occupé pendant plus d’un demi-mill&eacut...
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