Aux origines

Il y a 60 000 ans, dans une petite grotte de calcaire du centre de la France, des Néandertaliens ont creusé une tombe et déposé le corps de l’un d’entre eux pour un repos éternel. Ce sont les conclusions qui ressortent de la nouvelle analyse d'un site qui a permis d'exhumer le fameux squelette de La Chapelle-aux-Saints en 1908. Cette étude a des implications importantes sur la compréhension du comportement et les capacités cognitives de nos proches cousins d’évolution, les Néandertaliens. Elle a été publiée dans les PNAS le 16 décembre 2013.

Neanderthals, forerunners to modern humans, buried their dead, an international team of archaeologists has concluded after a 13-year study of remains discovered in southwestern France.

Artefacts found at an archaeological site in Cyprus support a new theory that humans occupied the Mediterranean island about 1,000 years earlier than previously believed

Les origines de l'écriture et les algoritmes

Archaeologists from Kingston University mapped a prehistoric temple complex at a Neolithic site near the village of Damerham, near Stonehenge.

Not a whole lot is known about the rock formations in the English countryside known as Stonehenge. Science is providing some new answers.

Life originated as a result of natural processes that exploited early Earth's raw materials.

Archaeologists have unearthed what may be the oldest -- and largest -- ancient wine cellar in the Near East, containing 40 jars, each of which would have held 50 liters of strong, sweet wine.

Ancient viruses from Neanderthals have been found in modern human DNA. Researchers compared genetic data from fossils of Neanderthals and another group of ancient human ancestors called Denisovans to data from modern-day cancer patients.

A Neolithic man who was buried in a nearly 300-foot-long long barrow, or mausoleum, 1.5 miles west of Stonehenge, 5,500 years ago has been poked, prodded, and reconstructed by scientists and placed in a spot of prominence to welcome tourists to a new Stonehenge visitors center opening tomorrow. The enamel on the man's teeth allowed scientists to determine the composition of his drinking water and to learn that he moved back and forth between modern Wales and the area surrounding Stonehenge until well into his teens. From nitrogen isotopes, also found in his teeth, researchers determined that he was an upper class individual who ate meat from early on in life, an indication that he inherited this status. Further, his travel to Wales and back suggests he may have been involved in the construction of the early monument of Stonehenge, which geologists believe was made of bluestones from the west, as opposed to the heavier sarsens seen today.

Five-thousand years before it was immortalized in a British nursery rhyme, the cat that caught the rat that ate the malt was doing just fine living alongside farmers in the ancient Chinese village of Quanhucun, a forthcoming study in the...

Sink hole from neolithic site reveals past

Some large, grass-eating mammals, such as elephants, rhinos and camels, gather together not only when they eat, but also when they defecate.

Archaeologists working in Nepal have uncovered evidence of a structure at the birthplace of the Buddha dating to the sixth century B.C.

Results from a DNA study of a young boy’s skeletal remains believed to be 24,000 years old could turn the archaeological world upside down – it’s been proven that nearly 30 percent of modern Native American’s ancestry came from this youngster’s...