Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – What did our ancestors eat during the stone age? Mostly meat. Researchers at Tel Aviv University were able to reconstruct the nutrition of stone age humans. In a paper published in the Yearbook of the

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study has, for the first time used zinc isotope analysis to determine the position of Neanderthals in the food chain. The findings suggest that Neanderthals were, in fact carnivores. Were Neanderthals carnivores? Scientists

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The relationship between modern humans and neanderthals has been a subject of interest to anyone who wants to know more about our long-gone ancestors. A new study sheds more light on our understanding of the

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – To learn more about the cradle of civilization, scientists rely on archaeology, ancient history, paleontology, and the study of DNA that help researchers to understand the genetic history and movements of people across the globe.

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Despite more than half a century of hominin fossil discoveries in eastern Africa, the regional environmental context of the evolution and dispersal of modern humans and their ancestors is not well established. Particularly for the

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists and paleontologists have recently unearthed an intriguing 1-million-year-old human skull fossil that gives scientists a remarkable opportunity to get more insight into the complex history of human evolution. At a news conference of the

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in Northern Spain have made an extraordinary discovery that they define as a breakthrough capable of rewriting the history of human evolution in Europe. At the caves of the Sierra de Atapuerca near

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In the field of human genetics, the story of Mother Eve is a familiar one. It describes how all living humans descend from one woman who lived in Africa 200,000 to 300,000 years ago. Evidence comes from

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers have discovered a 380-million-year-old heart—the oldest ever found—alongside a separate fossilized stomach, intestine and liver in an ancient jawed fish, shedding new light on the evolution of our own bodies. The new research, published

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in Georgia have found a 1.8-million-year-old tooth belonging to an early species of human. “The tooth was discovered near the village of Orozmani, around 100 km (62 miles) southwest of the Georgian capital of

Jan Bartek  – AncientPages.com – Many people living today have a small component of Neanderthal DNA in their genes, suggesting an important role for admixture with archaic human lineages in the evolution of our species. Paleogenetic evidence indicates that hybridization