Parsons Island: Stone Tools That Would Push Human Arrival in America Back by 7,000 Years
On a small Chesapeake island crumbling into the bay, a geologist claims to have found stone tools 22,000 years old, far earlier than the ac…
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On a small Chesapeake island crumbling into the bay, a geologist claims to have found stone tools 22,000 years old, far earlier than the ac…
Read →A study from Aarhus and Johannesburg re-reads the geometry of Late Pleistocene points and raises an unsettling question: were our ancestors…
Read →In a cave in Puglia, the exceptionally preserved remains of an infant who died around 17,000 years ago have yielded the oldest known genome…
Read →For decades, dense tropical rainforests were seen as impassable barriers for early humans. A 2025 study in Nature overturns that view: at t…
Read →In September 2026, a University of Haifa team led by Hannah Farrell published in Quaternary Science Reviews the analysis of a 700,000-year-…
Read →Man hunted, woman gathered, and the prized meat flowed first to the hunters. This old story about the prehistoric division of labour is now…
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 →A CNRS team has succeeded in directly radiocarbon-dating Palaeolithic paintings in Font-de-Gaume cave, Dordogne. A bison has been placed at…
Read →In Burgundy, the Grande Grotte of Arcy holds France's oldest still-visible paintings, 28,000 years old. Neanderthals then Cro-Magnons succe…
Read →A First Art team, with the Max Planck Institute, has recovered ancient human DNA straight from the walls of eleven caves in Spain and Portu…
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