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A new paper explores humankind’s ‘braided’ stream of evolution, the result of genetic admixture when Neanderthals and other ancient groups met and mixed in ancient times.

Standardization can be applied to a lithic assemblage via raw material selection, blank production, blank selection, and/or retouch. Here we explore the baseline level of morphological standardization achievable through blank production alone. By quantifying how little morphological variability is inherently involved in different blank-producing lithic technologies that span much of the Stone Age, we seek to gain a long-term perspective on the evolution of lithic standardization. 728 flakes were...

CS:GO players have officially been killing each other since the time of the first cave paintings, as Steam stats reveal the huge hours poured into Valve’s FPS

The reconstruction of the original morphology of bones and teeth after sampling for physicochemical (e.g., radiocarbon and uranium series dating, stable isotope analysis, paleohistology, trace element analysis) and biomolecular analyses (e.g., ancient DNA, paleoproteomics) is appropriate in many contexts and compulsory when dealing with fossil human remains. The reconstruction protocols available to date are mostly based on manual re-integration of removed portions and can lead to an imprecise r...

British researchers say the ancient engravings of animals on the flat surfaces of stones known as plaquettes appear to move when exposed to flickering flames of a hearth fire.

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Archaeologists have raced to create a replica of the Cosquer Cave in France, before it is lost to the tide.

To get to the 30,000-year-old paintings, archaeologists first have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean near Marseille, before navigating a 450ft tunnel to reach a huge cavern.

Archaeologists and divers are working to preserve and record the Palaeolithic paintings and engravings, as a new replica exhibition opens this week

The genome of a person who died in the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in Pompeii has been sequenced in full for the first time, according to a new study.