Amid active volcanoes and sacred birds, a human-Neanderthal romance
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.
Source: patheos.com
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Evidence of a Neanderthal religion dates back 175,000 years
“[A] growing body of data demonstrates the appearance of modern behavior in extinct (Neanderthal) populations of Europe, well before the immigration of humans.”
Source: patheos.com
The most precious jewelry in the world
By pharyngula on July 18, 2013. It's not the Koh-I-Noor or the Empress Eugenie Brooch or whatever my wife is wearing right now, it's this: It's a small, broken fossil shell, collected from a fossil outcrop and transported 110 kilometers to a hole in the ground in Italy. Close inspection reveals that before it was broken, there was a pattern of abrasion in one spot that suggests a hole had been drilled in it and a loop of sinew threaded through it. Although most of it has been worn away by time, bits of material in microscopic pits on its surface reveal that once, this shell h...
Source: scienceblogs.com