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Researchers have now identified the presence of Helicobacter pylori in Ötzi's stomach contents, a bacterium found in half of all humans today.

Ötzi The Iceman’s Stomach Bacteria And Complex History Of European Settlements

AncientPages.com | January 8, 2016

AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists working with paleopathologist Albert Zink and microbiologist Frank Maixner from the European Academy (EURAC) in Bozen/Bolzano have now identified the presence of Helicobacter

Ancient Irish genomes each show unequivocal evidence for massive migration.

Archaeology

Intriguing Genetics: First Ancient Irish Human Genomes – Sequenced

AncientPages.com | December 29, 2015

AncientPages.com - A team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin and archaeologists from Queen’s University Belfast have sequenced the genomes of an early farmer woman, who lived near Belfast

The remains of several other human bones were found in the cave at Viste where Viste Boy was discovered. These belonged to an adult human. Credits: University of Stavanger

Archaeology

8200-Year-Old ‘Viste Individual’ – DNA Analysis May Shed Light On Early Migration To Norway

AncientPages.com | December 6, 2015

AncientPages.com - A small piece of the skull of the 8200-year-old “Viste Boy” has been sent to a Swedish laboratory for DNA analysis. Scientists hope to learn more about early

Virtual reconstruction of the camp. Image: Luis Alberto Marcos

Archaeology

13,000-Year-Old Engraving May Depict First Paleolithic Social Group Of Humans

AncientPages.com | December 4, 2015

AncientPages.com - 13,000 year-old engraving uncovered in Spain may depict a hunter-gatherer campsite, according to researchers Marcos García-Diez from University of the Basque Country, Spain, and Manuel Vaquero from

Neither population increase nor ecological changes provide an adequate explanation for patterns of human movement into new regions which began around 100,000 years ago. She suggests that as commitments to others became more essential to survival, and human groups ever more motivated to identify and punish those who cheat, the ‘dark’ side of human nature also developed.

Archaeology

Did Human Nature’s Dark Side Help Us Spread Across The World?

AncientPages.com | November 25, 2015

AncientPages.com - Modern humans spread rapidly around the world from 100,000 years ago but neither population increase nor ecological changes provide an adequate explanation for patterns of this behavior. A

Researchers had noticed that people from southern Europe tend to be shorter than those from northern Europe. The new study suggests that the height differential arises both from people in the north having more ancestry from Eurasian steppe populations, who seem to have been taller, and people in the south having more ancestry from Neolithic and Chalcolithic groups from the Iberian peninsula, who seem to have been shorter.

Archaeology

DNA Study Reveals How Europe’s Hunter-Gatherers Adapted To A New Way Of Life – Farming

AncientPages.com | November 24, 2015

AncientPages.com - The introduction of agriculture into Europe about 8,500 years ago changed the way people lived right down to their DNA. Now, an international team reports in Nature that researchers

The fossilized skull of Homo erectus discovered at the site of the grotto of Hualong, in the district of Dongzhi, in the Chinese province of Anhui [Credit: Xinhua]

Human Beginnings

“Dongzhi Man” – Ancient Human Fossil Discovered In China

AncientPages.com | November 22, 2015

AncientPages.com - An "uncommonly well-preserved" fossilized skull of homo erectus has been discovered by Chinese archaeologists, at the Hualongdong archaeological site in Dongzhi County, in east China. The discovery contributes to

"Saccopastore remains are 100,000 years older than previously thought – and push back the arrival of Neanderthal man in Italy to 250,000 years ago”

Archaeology

Neanderthals Were Present In Italy Much Earlier Than Previously Thought

AncientPages.com | November 6, 2015

AncientPages.com - A new study indicates that Neanderthal man arrived on the Italian peninsular some 100,000 years earlier than previously thought. Researchers analyzed radioactive deposits that were found in

Our species, Homo sapiens, is thought to have appeared in Africa around 200,000 years ago. The details of its dispersal from there are still murky. The latest study suggests that our ancestors first spread east, via the Arabian Peninsula, and entered South Asia long before the 60,000 year mark (shown by the yellow arrow). Photo Credit: Daily Mail.

Archaeology

Fossil Teeth Reveal: Humans Were Present In Asia ‘20,000 Years Earlier’ Than Previously Thought

AncientPages.com | October 15, 2015

AncientPages.com - A discovery of human teeth in southern China has shaken the facts on the spread of modern humans, as it places Homo sapiens in Asia much

The Ahrensburg culture or Ahrensburgian (11th to 10th millennia BCE) was a late Upper Paleolithic nomadic hunter culture (or technocomplex) in north-central Europe

Archaeology

12,000-Year-Old Ice Age Stone Tools Found – Earliest Dated Evidence For Human Activity in Scotland

AncientPages.com | October 10, 2015

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the University of Reading have found a set of 12,000-year-old tools made by the Ahrensburgian culture, which flourished in mainland Europe towards the end of

An artist impression of what the asteroid impacts would have looked like. (Illustration by Don Dixon, copyright Erik Sturkell)

Human Beginnings

Scientists confirm the world’s only twin asteroid strike in Sweden

AncientPages.com | October 1, 2015

AncientPages.com - 60 million years ago, two asteroids struck Earth in what is now Sweden. It is the only proven example of such a double strike. The only

“The present sea levels in Australia were reached 7,000 years ago and as such any stories about the coastline stretching much further out to sea had to pre-date that time.”

Civilizations

Aboriginal ‘Memories’ Of Australia’s Coastline Go Back More Than 7,000 Years

AncientPages.com | September 30, 2015

AncientPages.com - Aboriginal society has preserved memories of Australia's coastline dating back more than 7,000 years, researchers say. After three years of painstaking research, University of the Sunshine

Lateral view of the Paranthropus robustus skull SK 46 from the site of Swartkrans, South Africa showing the 3D virtual reconstruction of the ear and the hearing results for the early hominins. Credit: Rolf Quam

Human Beginnings

New Study: Fossils Reveal Human Ancestors’ Hearing Abilities

AncientPages.com | September 28, 2015

AncientPages.com - Research into human fossils dating back to approximately two million years ago reveals that the hearing pattern resembles chimpanzees, but with some slight differences in the

Human Beginnings

Rising Star Expedition Reveals New species: Homo naledi

AncientPages.com | September 10, 2015

AncientPages.com - The discovery of 15 individuals, consisting of 1,550 bones, represents the largest fossil hominin find on the African continent. It also raises intriguing questions about our

Human Beginnings

Common genetic origin for farmers from Central Europe and the Mediterranean area

AncientPages.com | September 5, 2015

An international team of researchers has sequenced the first complete genome of an Iberian farmer. It is also the first ancient genome from the Mediterranean. This new genome

Human Beginnings

Human Body Has Gone Through Four Stages Of Evolution – New Study

AncientPages.com | September 1, 2015

AncientPages.com - Research into 430,000-year-old fossils collected in northern Spain found that the evolution of the human body’s size and shape has gone through four main stages, according

Human Beginnings

Abric Romaní Cave: New evidence indicates Neanderthals used to heat water some 60,000 years ago

AncientPages.com | August 31, 2015

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from The Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES) found about 10,000 Neanderthal artifacts and a sleeping area at Abric

Archaeology

Fascinating Gigantic Creatures Today Totally Extinct 13,000 Years Ago Co-Existed With Early Americans

AncientPages.com | May 8, 2012

AncientPages.com - The Ice Age world was, geologically, just a moment ago. Fascinating but today extinct giant animals, like mammoths, mastodons and giant ground sloths, coexisted with early Americans

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