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Researchers debate if Neanderthals really had high-pitched voices or if they were able to speak at all.

This week, the oldest plant-based red paint, the stories of queer Palestinians in Gaza, why women’s clothes don’t have pockets, and more.

The study of 10 beads from a cave in the Levant shows that a Natufian society made a plant-based red dye before plant domestication.

The study of 10 beads from a cave in the Levant shows that a Natufian society made a plant-based red dye before plant domestication.

At Kebara 15,000 Years Ago, Plant-based Pigment Was Used to Dye Beads And, Possibly, Wow the Other Natufians, Archaeologists Suggest

Hunter-gatherers cooked up the alluring pigment in the Eastern Mediterranean 15,000 years ago

Just 10 years ago, many scholars still believed there was no interbreeding. Genetic studies now show it went on for more than 30,000 years.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 1, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Ofer Bar-Yosef was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.

For a long time, the common depiction of Neanderthals was a group of unintelligent subhumans who could only communicate through wild gestures and loud grunts. But many researchers were not convinced Neanderthals were as primitive as the media made them appear.

There are many myths suggesting Neanderthals were primitive brutes, but science paints a completely different picture.