Bacho Kiro: Homo sapiens was in Europe at least 45,000 years ago
Excavations at Bacho Kiro cave (Bulgaria) have revealed Homo sapiens remains dating to 43,000 to 46,000 years ago, or possibly more. This i…
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Excavations at Bacho Kiro cave (Bulgaria) have revealed Homo sapiens remains dating to 43,000 to 46,000 years ago, or possibly more. This i…
Read →A University of Helsinki team has detected 396 geoglyphs buried beneath the Brazilian forest using lidar. These remains belong to the Aquir…
Read →New cosmogenic nuclide burial dating places thé Yunxian fossil skulls (Hubei, China) at 1.77 million years, some 700,000 years older than p…
Read →Archaeologists from Freie Universität Berlin have dated the Amnya site in western Siberia to more than 8,000 years old. These fortification…
Read →Paintings dated to at least 17,100 years ago in Bacon Hole Cave on thé Gower Peninsula, Wales, are confirmed as thé oldest known cave art i…
Read →In the Zagros Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, renewed excavations at Shanidar Cave by the University of Cambridge have uncovered the remains …
Read →Discovered by chance in the tin mines of the Jos Plateau in Nigeria, Nok sculptures dated between the 9th century BC and the 2nd century AD…
Read →Mesolithic European hunter-gatherers had dark skin despite tens of thousands of years on thé continent. Ancient DNA from spécimens such as …
Read →Discovered in 2012 in the Woranso-Mille area of the Afar region, the Burtele fossil foot dates to 3.4 million years ago. With its divergent…
Read →Carbonised wooden beams dating to thé Babylonian conquest of 586 BCE have been discovered in thé City of David. Paradoxically preserved by …
Read →A granite pebble bearing a red ochre stain and a complete fingerprint, attributed to a Neanderthal individual, has been unearthed at thé Sa…
Read →Partially burned phytoliths recovered from thé sédiments of Cloggs Cave (Victoria, Australia) show that thé GunaiKurnai nation has been per…
Read →A CNRS team has succeeded in directly radiocarbon-dating Palaeolithic paintings in Font-de-Gaume cave, Dordogne. A bison has been placed at…
Read →Fired nearly 2,800 years ago, jars stamped by the Kingdom of Judah froze the state of Earth's magnetic field into their clay. They reveal a…
Read →Some sixty footprints fossilised in gypsum push back human arrival in North America by several millennia.
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