Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – After the Neolithic, European populations showed an increase in height and intelligence, reduced skin pigmentation and increased risk of cardiovascular disease due to genetic changes that lowered concentrations of ‘good’ HDL cholesterol. The changes reflect

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The ancient human remains unearthed in the Bacho Kiro cave (in present-day Bulgaria) and recently genetically described were surprisingly reported to be more closely related to contemporary East Asians than contemporary Europeans. Several scenarios were proposed to

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Neandertals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, but many details of their extinction remain unclear. To elucidate the situation, it is useful to explore how Neandertal populations were changing during their final millennia. Credit: Adobe –

Conny Waters – AncientPahes.com – The never-ending debate about when the first humans reached North America continues. This time an archeologist says there is evidence humans reached the American continent 130,000 years ago! This statement challenges the  ‘Clovis First’ theory

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The study of human evolution plays a vital role for the progress of science and history in society. There are still many riddles to be solved that can shed more light on how humans evolved

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – How and when did the first people reach the Americas has been debated for decades. Most scientists agree the first humans to inhabit America came from Eurasia. The problem is that the timeline and route

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A recent study shows preserving the memory of our ancestors has always been important to prehistoric humans. A first-of-its-kind study at Tel Aviv University asks what drove prehistoric humans to collect and recycle flint tools

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com –  The ancient history of human evolution just got a bit more complicated, or perhaps the answers are there but scientists must still put together the jigsaw puzzle. Researchers say a 1.5-million-year-old hominin fossil points to

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered surprising evidence modern humans successively inhabited the Mandrin Cave in France within an interval of barely a year. Studies of hominin fossils reveal modern humans reached the cave about 56,000 years ago

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – How did the first modern humans reach the European continent? A new study shows that the first Homo sapiens could not have reached Europe over the Gibraltar or Sicily straits, but they might have got to Eurasia

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A groundbreaking study in prehistoric archaeology at Tel Aviv University provides evidence for high cognitive abilities in early humans who lived 170,000 years ago. In a first-of-its kind study, the researchers developed a software-based smoke

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Quintessential human traits such as large brains first appear in Homo erectus nearly 2 million years ago. This evolutionary transition towards human-like traits is often linked to a major dietary shift involving greater meat consumption. A new study

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognized as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of a massive volcanic eruption in Ethiopia reveals they are much older than

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The evolution of writing is a complex issue, but the Vai script, a rare manuscript may offer clues into this important question scientists have long tried to solve. The world’s very first invention of writing

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new extinct reptile species has shed light on how our earliest ancestors became top predators by modifying their teeth in response to environmental instability around 300 million years ago. In findings published in Royal Society