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A multidisciplinary study on human- Animal co- burials from the Late Iron Age necropolis of Seminario Vescovile in Verona (Northern Italy, 3rd-1st c. BCE). Abstract Animal remains are a common find in prehistoric and protohistoric funerary contexts. While taphonomic and osteological data...

Abstract The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe is associated with the regional disappearance of Neanderthals and the spread of Homo sapiens. Late Neanderthals persisted in western Europe several millennia after the occurrence of H. sapiens in eastern Europe1. Local hybridization...

"For ice age hunters in Europe some 30,000 years ago, styles of ornaments including amber pendants, ivory bangles, and fox tooth beads may have also signaled membership in a particular culture, researchers report today in Nature Human Behaviour. The study, which compared thousands of handcrafted...

The new language was discovered in the UNESCO World Heritage Site Boğazköy-Hattusha in north-central Turkey. This was once the capital of the Hittite Empire, one of the great powers of Western Asia during the Late Bronze Age (1650 to 1200 BC)...

"A recent study that sequenced the genes in human sperm cells could detect no intact mtDNA before fertilization, lending support to an early chop. While each sperm cell contained about 100 mitochondria of its own, a team of researchers from the US and Spain found no trace of male mtDNA within...

"To find a way to fight modern-day pathogens, some scientists are looking to our distant ancestors. In a new paper published late last month in the journal Cell Host & Microbe, researchers say they’ve re-created molecules from Neanderthals and Denisovans that don’t exist in living organisms—a...

Abstract Vertebrate macroevolution has been punctuated by fundamental habitat transitions from shallow marine origins to terrestrial, freshwater, and aerial environments. Invasion of the deep sea is a less well-known ecological shift because of low fossilization potential and continual loss of...

Researchers have gleaned genetic information from an African hominin that lived two million years ago, the oldest such data yet recovered. The protein sequences, described in a preprint posted on the bioRxiv server on 3 July1, come from several Paranthropus robustus tooth fossils found in a...

Abstract "Evidence of plant food processing is a significant indicator of the human ability to exploit environmental resources. The recovery of starch grains associated with use-wear on Palaeolithic grinding tools offers proof of a specific technology for making flour among Pleistocene...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution shows that a condition known as Dupuytren's disease is partly of Neanderthal origin. Researchers have long known that the disease was much more common in Northern Europeans than in those of African ancestry...

When archaeologists in Italy were exploring the spectacular Battifratta Cave, they did not expect to unearth ?a rare? clay female figurine. And neither were they ready for the dating of the piece, which determined the artifact was created some 7,000 years ago...

Hi. I posted a reply to a topic but as of yet it has not appeared. I got the "your post is under moderation and will appear once approved" but that was several weeks ago. I've tried to repost today and received the same thing. I've made other posts, all of them being displayed instantly...

Hi everybody. I'm a Central Italian from Lazio. These are my results. Europe 77.6% Europe (South) 61.3% Great Britain and Ireland 15.1% Europe (East) 1.2% Near East 20.7% Levant 11% North Turkey 9.8% Asia (South) 1.6% Balochistan 1.6% On 23andme (It's supposed to go 500 years far back...