An analysis of ancient genomes suggests that the different branches of the human family tree interbred multiple times, and that some humans carry DNA from an archaic and unknown ancestor. Melissa Hubisz and Amy Williams of Cornell University and Adam Siepel of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory repo
New studies look at child labor since prehistoric times. Example with the salt mines of Central Europe. In the Bronze Age, children worked in the salt mines of present-day Austria. Children are the forgotten greats of archaeology! While we often talk about prehistoric men and women, the question
The International Center for Parietal Art - Lascaux 4 - offers a superb facsimile of the famous decorated cave of Dordogne. The site which opens to the public on December 15, 2016 is inaugurated this Saturday by François Hollande; Science and the Future went there at the end of October. One of the
If there is something that characterizes archeology, it is the care, the almost exquisite touch that is given to the sites and that makes a tool as simple and limited as a brush the protagonist of the excavations, making the archaeologist have to spend hours and hours under the sun separating just a