Prehistoire 5

Mead (USA): Alaska researchers turn up 12,300-year-old artwork

New research claims that the Peking Man fossil may have been a woman

Denisova Cave (Russie); Stone bracelet is oldest ever found in the world

El Mirón cave (Espagne): Traces of flowers on Red Lady’s tomb

- Xiachuan (Chine):  Fireplaces, grinding stones and hematite coexisted in Paleolithic site

Did people settle the Americas once or many times?

Inconsistencies in peopling of North America ‘ice bridge’ theory revealed

Myth of tolerant dogs and aggressive wolves refuted

El Mirón Cave (Espagne): Dental calculus analysis reveals mushrooms were consumed as early as the Upper Palaeolithic

Complex cognition shaped the Stone Age hand axe

- Wally's Beach (Canada): Q & A with Brian Kooyman

Barranco León (Espagne): Earliest humans in Western Europe followed the climate

Sima del Elefante (Espagne): Archaeologists report on early human tools

Utah (USA): Over 1,000 Ancient Stone Tools, Left by Great Basin Hunters, Found in Desert

“Neanderthal bone flutes” were the work of scavenging hyenas

- Schoningen (Allemagne): 300,000 year-old eggshells aid in re-construction of Palaeolithic environment

Ice-age Europeans roamed in small bands of fewer than 30, on brink of extinction

Heitugou (Chine): remains of a two-million-year-old playground?

El Mirón (Espagne): Red Lady cave burial reveals Stone Age secrets

Wally's Beach (Canada): people hunted horse and camel 13,300 years ago

Saldanha Bay (Afrique du Sud): Middle Stone Age Picnics on the Beach

- Poisons, plants and Palaeolithic hunters

Revadim (Israel): Animal fat residue found on 500,000 year old stone tools

Redmont (USA): 10,000-Year-Old Stone Tool Site Discovered

Messak Settafet (Libye): Saharan 'carpet of tools' is the earliest known man-made landscape

Rimrock Draw (USA): Stone Tool Unearthed‘Hints’ at Oldest Human Occupation in Western U.S.

Did Dog-Human Alliance Drive Out the Neanderthals?

Manot Cave (Israel): Precise dating of ancient charcoal found near a skull is helping reveal a unique period in prehistory

- Vero Beach (USA): More Evidence Suggests Humans From The Ice Age

- Trail of Tools Reveals Modern Humans' Path Out of Africa

- Al Ain fan (UAE): Out of Africa: Did humans migrate in a single wave or in phases based on weather?

Pilbara (Australie):  digs debunk timeline for ancient tool development

Bluefish Caves (Canada): Butchered Bones Found Bear Marks of Early Americans

Scientists are increasingly revising the idea of human nature as inherently competitive and violent

El Collado (Espagne): The Emergence of Mesolithic Cemeteries in SW Europe

Lubuskie (Pologne): Dozen thousand years old hunter-gatherer camp studied

1st Americans Used Spear-Throwers to Hunt Large Animals

Fossils link Caribbean bat extinction to humans

Evolutionary origins of dog-human cooperation

- Prehistoric sex toys

Yangtze River (Chine): Ancient bone hand ax identified

Arcy-sur-Cure (France): Stone Age man wasn't necessarily more advanced than the Neanderthals