News tagged with middle paleolithic
Late Neanderthals and modern human contact in southeastern Iberia
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Dec 09, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It is widely accepted that Upper Paleolithic early modern humans spread westward across Europe about 42,000 years ago, displacing and absorbing Neanderthal populations in the process. However, ...
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Early human hunters had fewer meat-sharing rituals
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Aug 13, 2009 |
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A University of Arizona anthropologist has discovered that humans living at a Paleolithic cave site in central Israel between 400,000 and 250,000 years ago were as successful at big-game hunting as were later ...
Ancestors wore shoes some 26,000 years ago
Aug 19, 2005 |
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The first supportive footwear came into use in western Eurasia between 26,000 and 30,000 years ago, says a study by Washington University in St. Louis.
Supportive shoes date to 40,000 years
Aug 24, 2005 |
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Modern-type supportive shoes came into existence between 26,000 and 40,000 years ago, a Washington University professor has determined.
A 200,000-year-old cut of meat
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Oct 14, 2009 |
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Contestants on TV shows like Top Chef and Hell's Kitchen know that their meat-cutting skills will be scrutinized by a panel of unforgiving judges. Now, new archaeological evidence is getting the same scrutiny ...
New dating methods amongst the Top 10 Scientific discoveries of the Year
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Dec 18, 2007 |
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Time Magazine has named a study by Oxford researchers, using new dating techniques on a human skull to help find out where our most recent common ancestor came from, as one of the Top 10 Scientific Discov ...
Neanderthal Lacked Anatomical Competitive Edge: Skeletal Remains Tell the Story
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Jan 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of the skeletal fossils of Neanderthal and Early modern man suggest the lack of a "throwing arm" may have made the difference in human evolution. Researchers Jill A. Rhodes and ...
New evidence debunks 'stupid' Neanderthal myth
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Aug 26, 2008 |
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Research by UK and American scientists has struck another blow to the theory that Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) became extinct because they were less intelligent than our ancestors (Homo sapiens). The research ...
40,000-year-old skull shows both modern human and Neandertal traits
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Jan 16, 2007 |
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Humans continued to evolve significantly long after they were established in Europe, and interbred with Neandertals as they settled across the continent, according to new research published this week in the ...
Study suggests why Neanderthals vanished
Jan 19, 2006 |
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A multi-university study argues the disappearance of Neanderthals was not due to competition from modern humans, as is widely believed.
Packages of care for alcohol use disorders in low- and middle-income countries
Oct 27, 2009 |
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In the latest article in PLoS Medicine's series proposing the delivery of "packages of care" for mental, neurological and substance-use disorders in low- and middle-income countries, Vivek Benegal and colleagues discuss the tr ...
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