Aux origines

Scientists have found that Neanderthals organized their living spaces in ways that would be familiar to modern humans, a discovery that once again shows similarities between these two close cousins. Archaeologists are shown excavating Neanderthal levels at Riparo Bombrini, Northwest Italy [Credit: Fabio Negrino]The findings, published in the latest edition of the Canadian Journal of Archaeology, indicate that Neanderthals butchered...

Wolves can learn from observing humans and pack members where food is hidden and recognize when humans only pretend to hide food, reports a study for the first time in the open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology. These findings imply that when our ancestors started to domesticate dogs, they could have built on a pre-existing ability of wolves to learn from others, not necessarily pack members. The researchers conclude that the...

The archaeological site of Jiahu in China was inhabited from 7000 BCE to 5700 BCE and has yielded important information on the early foundations of Chinese society

Wolves can learn from observing humans and pack members where food is hidden and recognize when humans only pretend to hide food, reports a new study. The findings imply that when our ancestors started to domesticate dogs, they could have built on a pre-existing ability of wolves to learn from others, not necessarily pack members.

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An archaeology team led by an academic from London's Kingston University has delved back into a Neolithic site at Damerham, Hampshire, and uncovered a sink hole of material that may hold vital information about the plant species that thrived there 6,000 years ago.

Archeologists in China have found two Neolithic light houses in the Shaanxi Province.

Excavations in Can Sadurní cave (Begues, Barcelona) have discovered four human skeletons dated at about 6,400 years ago which were buried following an unknown ritual in the Iberian Peninsula. Few caves have necropolis dated at such an ancient period: the beginning of Middle Neolithic.

Spanish archaeologists discovered what they claim to be the earliest scientific evidence of European beer consumption amongst the remains of Neolithic bodies found in a cave

Stonehenge’s origin has remained a mystery for thousands of years. Many scientists believed the “bluestones” were transported to the area from Carn Menyn in

Selon des études, si sur le plan individuel, l'héritage de Néandertal ne dépasse pas 3 % de nos gènes, au total 20 % du génome de l'homme de Néandertal subsisterait éparpillé dans l'ADN des populations modernes.

Avec Joséphine Lesur, maître de conférences au MNHN, Michelle Elliot, maître de conférences à l'université de Paris I, et Thomas Coucchi chargé de recherche au CNRS

Research led by Professors Paul Blackwell and Caitlin Buck from the University of Sheffield’s School of Mathematics and Statistics and Professor Paula Reimer from Queen’s University Belfast has resulted in a new, internationally agreed radiocarbon calibration curve which will provide improved accuracy to archaeologists, environmental scientists and climate researchers who rely on radiocarbon dating to put their findings onto a reliable...

A new study led by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Zoological Society or London warns that the world's largest tropical desert, the Sahara, has suffered a catastrophic collapse of its wildlife populations. This shows some of the world's 200 remaining wild addax in Termit and Tin Toumma National Nature Reserve in Niger [Credit: Copyright Thomas Rabeil and Sahara Conservation Fund]The study by more than 40 authors representing 28...

Des archéologues en Chine ont exhumé les crânes de plus de 80 jeunes femmes qui pourraient avoir fait l'objet d'un sacrifice il y a plus de 4000 ans, a rapporté lundi la presse d'Etat.

The earliest known settlers in Co Cork were hunter-gatherers who lived near Fermoy more than 10,100 years ago. That’s according to archaeologists who will reveal a wealth of information about our ancestors when they launch a book published by the National Roads Authority on Dec 10 at UCC. Layout of a middle Bronze Age settlement at Ballybrowney Lower on the M8 Rathcormac– Fermoy motorway [Credit: John Hodgson, Cork County Council]It...

Archaeologists have found evidence of incipient agricultural activity estimated to date from 3500-3000 BC, within a small rock shelter in northeastern Mexico

Archaeologists said fortifications of the largest neolithic Chinese city ever discovered were excavated on Wednesday and Thursday in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

Chinese archaeologists have carefully stripped the 2,200-year-old clothing from four mummies in order to prevent the delicate outfits from decaying with the dried corpses. Xinjiang mummy [Credit: Xinhuanet]Three skulls and four mandible bones of different sizes have been uncovered so far, leading archaeologists to believe they belonged to one man, two women, and a little boy. "It may be a family buried together, including a husband...

Dąbki (West Pomerania) is a unique place, offering an insight into the social relations 7-6 thousand years ago, between hunters-gatherers and farmers and growers. The site is unique in the whole of Europe. Remains of human settlements from many millennia ago were discovered in Dąbki, located 30 km north-east of Koszalin, in the 1970s.

New research suggests stones came from Carn Goedog in Pembrokeshire – almost a mile from site of excavations

Archaeologists discovered what's thought to be a Neolithic moon-shaped calendar in eastern Serbia made from the tusk of a wild boar.