Bété I: Homo sapiens Lived in Africa's Tropical Rainforest 150,000 Years Ago
For decades, dense tropical rainforests were seen as impassable barriers for early humans. A 2025 study in Nature overturns that view: at t…
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From 3 million years ago to the dawn of our era: archaeological discoveries, palaeogenetics, cave art and the great transformations of human societies.
For decades, dense tropical rainforests were seen as impassable barriers for early humans. A 2025 study in Nature overturns that view: at t…
Read →Re-examined by CT scan, the skull of a child buried around 140,000 years ago in Skhūl Cave, on Mount Carmel, reveals a puzzling anatomy: a …
Read →In September 2026, a team led by Brazilian designer Cícero Moraes published in the journal Heritage a facial approximation of the oldest kn…
Read →Everyone outside Africa carries 1 to 2 percent Neanderthal DNA, but that inheritance is not scattered randomly across the genome. The X chr…
Read →From the valley of the Don to the shores of Lake Baikal, Upper Palaeolithic hunters left behind burials blanketed in tens of thousands of i…
Read →The first ancient genomes ever published for Colombia reveal a population of hunter-gatherers living near Bogotá around 6,000 years ago. Th…
Read →A re-examination of a 120,000-year-old fossil child reveals a mosaic of sapiens and Neanderthal traits, one more piece in the case for anci…
Read →Some sixty footprints fossilised in gypsum push back human arrival in North America by several millennia.
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