Aux origines

La découverte de lissoirs sur des sites préhistoriques en Périgord datés de - 50 000 ans permet d'attribuer à Néandertal la fabrication d'outils complexes, sans avoir à copier Homo sapiens.

An archaeological census performed by the Anthropology Institute within the Cuban Science, Technology and Environment Ministry has found that the human presence on the island hypothetically dates from between 8,000 and 10,000 years ago, local media here reported on Sunday.

A new study has demonstrated that large animals have acted as carriers of key nutrients to plants and animals over thousands of years and on continental scales.

4,000-year-old remains were discovered on Bord na Móna land in Co Laois in 2011

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Humans originated in Africa. But what route did they take as they began to disperse around the world 60,000 years ago?

Foto: El arqueólogo principal, Jay Carver, dijo que la fábrica de pedernal era un hallazgo emocionante

Fuente: lainformacion.com| 08 de agosto de 2013

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Studies disagree on whether Jurassic haramiyids were true mammals

Un ensemble de fosses sur un site écossais, serait le plus ancien calendrier lunaire...

Scientists have described an enigmatic species of mammal that lived about 165 million years ago and then went extinct.

A carved wooden post that archaeologists have dubbed ‘Britain’s oldest no-entry sign’ has undergone 3D laser scanning to see whether it can reveal any more Neolithic secrets.

Climate changes how species interact with one another -- and not just today.

A new high-tech analysis led by a University of Colorado Boulder researcher shows the oldest known petroglyphs in North America, which are cut into several boulders in western Nevada, date to at least 10,500 years ago and perhaps even as far back...

The head of an 8,000-year-old statue of a 'goddess' has been found during excavations in İzmir’s Yeşilova tumulus.

Much work so far suggests that the survivors of mass extinctions often are presented with new ecological opportunities because the loss of many species in their communities allows them to evolve new lifestyles and new anatomical features as they...

The head of an 8,000-year-old statue of a goddess has been found during excavations

New finds demonstrate: Neandertals were the first in Europe to make standardized and specialized bone tools—which are still in use today.

Mammal populations shrank during three abrupt climate shifts over the past 6,000 years.

Science has struggled to explain fully why an ice age occurs every 100,000 years.

Oreopithecus bambolii, une nouvelle étude remet en cause la bipédie supposée de cette espèce. Le sacrum et les vertebres lombaires sont, en particulier, très différents de ceux de l'homme. Une étude publiée dans Journal of Human Evolution.

Very little is known about how and when over the course of evolution 3-D protein structures arose.

Over 5.5 thousand years old brewing installation discovered by Polish archaeological mission at Tell el-Farcha in Egypt has been reconstructed in 3D by Karolina Rosińska-Balik, PhD student at the Jagiellonian University Institute of Archaeology.

Une figurine mise au jour en 1931 dans une grotte allemande, retrouve aujourd'hui sa tête...